GAIN GAMBLING
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
Julius Caesar. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 111.
God, if Thy will be so,
Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced
peace,
With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!
Richard III. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 32.
Quid crastina volveret Betas,
Scire nefas homini.
Man is not allowed to know what will
happen to-morrow.
Stattos—Thebais. III. 662.
Could we but know
The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel.
E. C. Stedman—Undiscovered Country.
When the Rudyards cease from Kipling
And the Haggards ride no more.
J. K. Stephen—Lapsus Calami.
When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.
Suetonius. Quoting Nero. Nero. 38. Quoted
by Mn/roN from Tiberius in his Church
Government. Bk. I. Ch. V. Tiberius,
quoting an unknown Greek poet. See note
of Leutsoh, Appendix II. 56, to Proverbs
LVTII. 23. Euripides—Fragment Inc. B.
XXVII.
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| text = <poem>Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old.
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
Bayard Taylor—Bedouin Song.
Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo est
Videre, sed etiam ilia, qua? futura sunt
Prospicere.
That is to be wise to see not merely that
which lies before your feet, but to foresee even
those things which are in the womb of futurity.
Terence—Adelphi. III. 3. 32.
I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says, I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.
Tickell—Colin and Lucy.
Dabit deus his quoque finem.
God will put an end to these also.
VERGiii—; JEneid. I. 199.
GAIN
Everywhere in life, the true question is not
what we gain, but what we do.
Carlyle—Essays. Goethe's Helena.
And if you mean to profit, learn to please.
Churchilij—Gotham. Bk. II. L. 88.
Little pains
In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
John PHniPS—Cider. Bk. I. L. 126.
Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quserit lucrum.
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
Plautus—Asinaria. I. 3. 65.
Share the advice betwixt you: if both gain, all
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis receiv'd,
And is enough for both.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 3.
Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 18.
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 39.
Lucrum malum a>quale dispendio.
An evil gain equals a loss.
Syrus—Maxims.
Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi
quid exususit.
Prom others' slips some profit from one's
self to gain.
Terence—Heauton limorumenos. I. 2.
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—In Congress on his Appointment as Commander-in-Chief, June 16,
1775.
GAMBLING
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thrones;
Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.
Byron—tfhe Age of Bronze. St. 3.
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined; He adds his soul to
every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
C. C. Colton—Lacon.
Our Quixote bard sets out a monster taming.
Arm'd at all points to fight that hydra, gaming.
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Gamester.
