"Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden."
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"If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain."
"If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself."
"The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose."
"Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn."
"By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition."
"There's no gain, without pain."
"The least outlay is not always the greatest gain."
"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
"Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity."
"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord"
"Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted."
"I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses."
"The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency."
"Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end."
"It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation."
"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges"
"No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies."
"The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner."
"Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss."