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VIRTUE is its own reward
Cf. OVID
Ex Ponto
II
. iii.
virtutem pretium .. esse sui
, virtue is its own reward.
1509
Ship of Fools
10
V
Vertue hath no rewarde.
1596
Faerie Queene
III
. xii.
Your vertue selfe her owne reward shall breed, Euen immortall praise, and glory wyde.
1642
Religio Medici
I
. 87
That vertue is her owne reward, is but a cold principle.
1673
Assignation
III
. i.
Virtue .. is its own reward: I expect none from you.
1844
Martin Chuzzlewit
xv.
It is creditable to keep up one's spirits here. Virtue's its own reward.
1988
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
(1989) 19
His patience was not like other people's, a rather feeble virtue, which had, by its nature, to be its own reward.
1998
Washington Times
3 Jan. D10
It's also not true the meek will inherit the earth or that virtue is its own reward.
just deserts
;
virtue
Ex Ponto
II
. iii.
virtutem pretium .. esse sui
, virtue is its own reward.
1509Ship of Fools
10
V
Vertue hath no rewarde.
1596
Faerie Queene
III
. xii.
Your vertue selfe her owne reward shall breed, Euen immortall praise, and glory wyde.
1642
Religio Medici
I
. 87
That vertue is her owne reward, is but a cold principle.
1673
Assignation
III
. i.
Virtue .. is its own reward: I expect none from you.
1844
Martin Chuzzlewit
xv.
It is creditable to keep up one's spirits here. Virtue's its own reward.
1988
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
(1989) 19
His patience was not like other people's, a rather feeble virtue, which had, by its nature, to be its own reward.
1998
Washington Times
3 Jan. D10
It's also not true the meek will inherit the earth or that virtue is its own reward.
just deserts;
virtue
The VOICE of the people is the voice of God
Cf.
a
804
ALCUIN
Letter
clxiv. in
Works
(1863) I. 438
solent dicere: vox populi
,
vox Dei
, they often say: the voice of the people is the voice of God.
c
1412
Regimen of Princes
(EETS) 104
Peples vois is goddes voys, men seyne.
1450
in
Political Poems
(1861) II. 227
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
1646
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
I
. iii.
Though sometimes they are flattered with that Aphorisme, [they] will hardly beleeve the voyce of the people to bee the voyce of God.
1822
Lacon
II
. 266
The voice of the People is the voice of God; this axiom has manifold exceptions.
1914
Misalliance
p. lxxii.
An experienced demagogue comes along and says, ‘Sir:
you
are the dictator: the voice of the people is the voice of God.’
1989
Washington Post
24 Mar. C2
I imagine they are fine citizens. After all, we elected them and the voice of the people is the voice of God, remember that.
politics
;
power
;
rulers and ruled
a
804
ALCUIN
Letter
clxiv. in
Works
(1863) I. 438
solent dicere: vox populi
,
vox Dei
, they often say: the voice of the people is the voice of God.
c1412
Regimen of Princes
(EETS) 104
Peples vois is goddes voys, men seyne.
1450
in
Political Poems
(1861) II. 227
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
1646
Pseudodoxia Epidemica
I
. iii.
Though sometimes they are flattered with that Aphorisme, [they] will hardly beleeve the voyce of the people to bee the voyce of God.
1822
Lacon
II
. 266
The voice of the People is the voice of God; this axiom has manifold exceptions.
1914
Misalliance
p. lxxii.
An experienced demagogue comes along and says, ‘Sir:
you
are the dictator: the voice of the people is the voice of God.’
1989
Washington Post
24 Mar. C2
I imagine they are fine citizens. After all, we elected them and the voice of the people is the voice of God, remember that.
politics;
power
;
rulers and ruled
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