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NO pain, no gain

1577
Works of Young Wit
33
^VThey must take pain that look for any gayn.
1648
Hesperides
298
No Paines
,
no Gaines
.
If little labour, little are our gaines: Mans fortunes are according to his paines.
1853
On Lessons in Proverbs
iv.
For the most part they courageously accept the law of labour,
No pains
,
no gains
,—
No sweat, no sweet
, as the appointed law and condition of man's life.
1985
Washington Post
22 May (Health Supplement) 14
Forget the coach's rule of ‘no pain, no gain’. Today, exercise researchers are replacing it with the ‘talk rule.’
1997
American Spectator
May 47
As the cliché goes, no pain, no gain. In fact, in our confessional age, you can make quite a lot of gains for very little pain.

wanting and having

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NO penny, no paternoster

1528
Obedience of Christian Man
fo. lxxxii
^VAfter the commune sayenge, no peny no Pater noster.
1648
Hesperides
302
Who .. Can't send for a gift A Pig to the Priest for a Roster [roast], Shall heare his Clarke say…
No pennie
,
no Pater Noster
.
1721
Scottish Proverbs
259
No Penny, no Pater Noster.
1925
My Life
ix.
If the churchly motto ‘No penny, no Paternoster’ was true, how could a church .. stay downtown when its congregation was moving north.
1940
Broken Face Murders
ii.
No penny, no paternoster. I neither pay the piper nor do I dance.

just deserts

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