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rewards pleasure should
The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless. Richard Whately
rewards life-is enough
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? William Morris
rewards enjoy labour
He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour. Samuel Smiles
rewards life-is building
Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built. Richard Ford
rewards interest
The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work. Robin Leach
rewards virtue consequence
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it. Walter Lippmann
rewards fruit speak
Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it. William Hazlitt
rewards vices virtue
Vice is its own reward. Quentin Crisp
rewards
See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward. Ralph Waldo Emerson
vices tendencies tempted
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Rebecca West
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Saint Augustine
vices nine penalties
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. William Graham Sumner
vices wells employed
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
vices dishonesty murder
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. Laurence Sterne
vices needs prudent
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices. Niccolo Machiavelli
vices sake
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Joseph Joubert
vices virtue excuse
Every vice has its excuse ready. Publilius Syrus
virtue oversight packages
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. Will Durant
virtue economics budgets
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. Ronald Reagan
virtue praise servant
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. Samuel Johnson
virtue
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue Fyodor Dostoyevsky
virtue fashionable
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Jose Marti
virtue parliament humankind
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. John Adams
virtue command beggar
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. Friedrich Schiller
virtue grows humans
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues. Madeleine L'Engle
virtue one-thing
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another. John Henry Newman