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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
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All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
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All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
On Heroes 5 -
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
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I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.
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