Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
quote by John Vanbrugh
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
quote by John Henry Newman
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And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
quote by Milton Friedman
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
quote by Baruch Spinoza
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Sacrifice Sacrifice
Sacrifice is losing with pleasure;
Sacrifice is suffering with pleasure.
Pleasure is the reward for the sacrifice.
Don't mind the absence of gratitude..
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
quote by Thomas A. Edison
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
quote by La Rochefoucauld
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Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Philosophy Of Beauty And The Beautiful
Simplicity is beauty,
Purity, divinity;
The virtue of quality
Excels that of quantity.
Beauty that pleases the sense is good,
Beauty and vitue are good,
Seek for things simple but noble,
Virtue alone can ennoble.
True beauty is simply graceful,
The graceful are beautiful,
There's beauty that's deceitful,
Nature itself is beautiful,
Beauty is perfection of form,
Virtue and good sense conforms,
Beautiful things may deform,
But virtue act in good form.
poem by Merlin Archivilla
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Virtue is indeed its own reward.
quote by Claudianus
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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
quote by Marcel Achard
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Don't brand as ungrateful dogs.
I grew a fruit tree that failed to bear.
The hope and joy I got in its growth
Being the reward for my efforts,
I should not curse the tree for its failure.
Let the grown up children desert you.
Let those you helped grow, have forgot you.
The pleasure you experienced then
Is the reward to act as gratitude.
12.02.2012.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Is there any reward?
Is there any reward?
I'm beginning to doubt it.
I am broken and bored,
Is there any reward
Reassure me, Good Lord,
And inform me about it.
Is there any reward?
I'm beginning to doubt it.
poem by Hilaire Belloc
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Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
quote by Jeremy Taylor
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
quote by Baruch Spinoza
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
quote by Silius Italicus
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