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«One, who earns leadership of the masses by working ceaselessly for people's welfare finally realizes that he has been rewarded with many added advantages. »
«Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.»
«Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world»
«Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.»
«Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.»
Author: Chamfort | Keywords: deference, earns, eminence
«I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin (Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: earn, earns, recognize, with reason
«Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.»
«He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.»
«Unwilling service earns no thanks.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: earns
«He who marries for money earns it.»
Author: Yiddish Proverb | Keywords: earns, marries