Every way makes my gain.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act v. Sc. 1.

The dog, to gain his private ends,

Went mad, and bit the man.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

For I say this is death and the sole death,—

When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,

Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,

And lack of love from love made manifest.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): A Death in the Desert.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Thoughts on Various Subjects.

And step by step, since time began,

I see the steady gain of man.

John G Whittier (1807-892): The Chapel of the Hermits.

And who (in time) knows whither we may vent

The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores

This gain of our best glory shall be sent

T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?

What worlds in the yet unformed Occident

May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619): Musophilus. Stanza 163.

He either fears his fate too much,

Or his deserts are small,

That dares not put it to the touch

To gain or lose it all.

Marquis Of Montrose (1612-1650): My Dear and only Love.

Now spurs the lated traveller apace

To gain the timely inn.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Who, doomed to go in company with Pain

And Fear and Bloodshed,—miserable train!—

Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Character of the Happy Warrior.

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,

Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain;

Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,

Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.

Joseph Story (1779-1845): Motto of the "Salem Register." (Life of Story, Vol. i. p. 127.)

Remote from cities liv'd a swain,

Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;

His head was silver'd o'er with age,

And long experience made him sage.

John Gay (1688-1732): Fables. Part i. The Shepherd and the Philosopher.