“The impulse to create is pure, self sufficient, its own reward or punishment.”
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
A Proper Gentleman, 1977
“743. As Virtue is its own Reward, so Vice is its own Punishment.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“5738. Wickedness is its own Punishment, and many Times its own Cure.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 5354. Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech in New York City (9 September 1912)
1910s
“In C++, reinvention is its own reward.”
Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer
Re: wretched C++ http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/178f262397afdbb5 (Usenet article). <br class="br">Usenet articles, C++
Stanley Fish (1938) American academic
Interview by Mark Bauerlein, " A Solitary Thinker https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Solitary-Thinker/127464," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2001
“This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.”
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
Thomas More book Utopia
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6REuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22haec+non+suis+commodis+prosperitatem+sed+ex+alienis+metitur+incommodis%22&pg=PA306#v=onepage
Alternate translation: [Pride] measures her prosperity not by her own goods but by others' wants.
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
“Crimes, like Virtues, are their own Rewards.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) Irish dramatist
The Inconstant (1702), Ori, Act iv, Sc. 2.
Ursula Goodenough book The Sacred Depths of Nature
Source: The Sacred Depths of Nature (1998), p. 60
Context: I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence … And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.
