62 Metaphors for reward

] Eznarza: You have done wisely, wisely, and the reward of wisdom is happiness.

But it is tragic enough that he should have been compelled to write a comic opera under the anguish that he felt at the loss of his two children and his wife, and that his reward should have been even then a dismal fiasco.

All the reward He asks, or ever asked, is the hearts of sinners, that He may convert them; the souls of sinners, that He may save them; and they belong to Him already, for He bought them this day with His own most precious blood.

Your only reward, when you have made faithful preparation for a recitation, is the feeling of satisfaction which you will always experience; and when you have been negligent, your only punishment is a sort of uneasy feeling of self-reproach.

Was it not also notorious, that the greatest reward which a master thought he could bestow upon his slave for long and faithful services was his freedom.

And, above everything else, we are free men and joyous men, working for the delight of living without restraint, and our reward is the thought that our work is very great and good and beautiful, since it is the creation of another France, the sovereign France of to-morrow.

Future rewards and punishments are no longer incentives to virtue or right living.

My mother died, and I came here to work as she wroughtay, fifty years ago, and my reward has been the puir boon o' the parish bread; ay, and waur than a' the rest, blindness.

Their reward (not alone in Japan) is the bland patronage or the scarcely-veiled contempt of those who profit by their labours.

" "I'm afraid the reward might be less than ten dollars," said Andy.

It is well known that a heavy price is set on the head of the meanest follower of the Rover, and that a rich, ay, a splendid reward will be the fortune of him who is the instrument of delivering the whole knot of miscreants into the hands of the executioner.

" It follows that the reward of effort is the promise of immortality, and that for each man, just because his thoughts and motives taken together count, and not one alone, there is infinite hope.

"My reward," was the prompt reply.

Her reward was the admiration and gratitude of the family; even little Minnie had been taught to say, at frequent intervals: 'I love Miss Shepperson because she is good!'

The reward of two thousand gold ducats was a tempting bait for desperadoes and others in need of coin.

He taught them that Athens might thus reap the fruit of her zealous devotion to maritime affairs ever since the invasion of the Medes; "she had not, indeed, perfected herself; but the reward of her superior training was the rule of the seaa mighty dominion, for it gave her the rule of much fair land beyond its waves, safe from the idle ravages with which the Lacedaemonians might harass Attica, but never could subdue Athens.

If you move your chair back a little, you will find the posture not inconvenient; but the only reward you will have for faithfully complying with the general custom is the pleasure of doing your duty, for no one watches you, and you would not be called to account should you neglect to conform to the usage of the school.

My reward was a thank you, sir, uttered in a hard, dry, unmistakably British voice.

The reward of labour is life: to enjoy our work is the secret.

his best reward Being scorn'd to be a fellow to the blacke gard.

Here their only reward has been the sense of duty well done.

41:3-4, 38:16, 23) The only reward after death that he could hold up before a good man was his reputation: A good life has its number of days, But a good name continues forever.

" "Your reward shall be the gallows," rejoined the earl, indignantly.

His royal Highness's reward was his own aesthetic satisfaction.

The reward to all was a garland of peacock's feathers.

62 Metaphors for  reward