"The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well."
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"We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment."
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"Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment."
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"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves."
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"To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification."
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"Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life."
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"Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life."
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"Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties."
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"Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts."
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"See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward."
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"It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state."
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"If you want success badly enough, you must weigh each thought, action, and experience. The reward you reap will be the knowledge of some of history's best kept secret, which when understood and applied will truly guide you to the success in life that all have dreamed about, but only few have attained"
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"The smell rewards the care."
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"Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse."
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"Success is the reward for toil."
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"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."
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"Only those willing to do what the very few do will get the rewards that the very few get."
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"Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, because it's just its own reward. It's sort of like heaven."
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"Salvation never will come through hope of reward."
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"Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it."
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