For everything you have missed you have gained something.

For everything you have missed you have gained something.

Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

And if you mean to profit, learn to please.

And if you mean to profit, learn to please.

Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
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Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
And is enough for both.

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no
pecuniary consideration could have tempted read more

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no
pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this
arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and
happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
- George Washington,

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
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This casket threatens; men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.

And gain is gain, however small.

And gain is gain, however small.

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.

No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.