“It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.”
“Uses of Great Men,”
1850s, Representative Men (1850)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson727
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“Thou, O God, sellest us all benefits, at the cost of our toil....”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 541.
“A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep her in paint and powder.”
Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral
Remarks to the Society of Sponsors, U.S. Navy, 13 February 1940
“… foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”
Fareed Zakaria book The Post-American World
Source: The Post-American World
“We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?”
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Quote by Nigel Farage on an article in The Sun, 1 August 2012. Record bill for EU is £19bn http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4465801/British-taxpayers-paid-a-record-192BILLION-to-the-EU.html <br class="br">2012
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Could not a boy be taught the elements of astronomy at the sole cost of using his eyes and his brain; taught slowly, certainly, and not wearied with too much at once? Some would learn more than others; but all would learn something. This is real science, real knowledge, which will make a boy wiser, and probably better too. He will learn to observe carefully, and not to be deceived, as we sometimes are, by appearances.
“It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.”
George S. Clason book The Richest Man in Babylon
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon