Quotes of Gainer - somelinesforyou

“ Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. ”

- Charles V

“ It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. ”

- Sir Roger L’Estrange

“ Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. ”

- William Gurnall

“ The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual… ”

- John Stuart Mill
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