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THE AWARD CEREMONY is held at a high school in Hyannis. Though it's just a gymnasium (the scent of balls of both varieties is still palpable) and the ceremony hasn't started yet, everyone speaks in hushed tones, like it's church. Something important and literary is about to happen here.
Delivered from the galling yoke of time.
I earned this, fair and square. We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and ... rectangularly. That would have to do.
How do you deserve a fortune? Render fortunes of service.
And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence. (page 402)
You might say that you've finally earned the wisdom.
Actually, it's the wisdom that has found and formed you.
My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.
I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.
It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.
confidant, paralegal, caddie, and only friend. I earned
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
invested with the dignity of possession.
Be harvested. But
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
The reward is found in the work.
Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.
A desired qualification must be preceded by the endeavor to prove that it is deserved
The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
CHAPTER XVI MR. GOTOBED'S PHILANTHROPY
The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.
We hold that gain after toil, triumph after adversity, achievement to a goal long-sought, is a greater beneficence than prebendary nutrient from the teat of an indulgent government.
Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.
Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.
The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.
Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.
Trus, is a word that has to be earned.
I obtained not the least thing from unexcelled, complete awakening, and for this very reason it is called unexcelled, complete awakening.
Art feasts upon its maker
Soul, wilt thou toss again?
By just such a hazard
Hundreds have lost, indeed,
But tens have won all.
Angels' breathless ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul.
Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears
Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way to overcome evil. Human nature demands something more enduring than the unquiet equilibrium of rival powers.
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.
Receive without complaint, Work with fate.
reward for the righteous.
The past is gained, secure, and on record.
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.
Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.
{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.
A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.
History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.
Give me prize, save your praise.
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
If you reward candor, you'll get it.
The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
(Its) admirable words can purchase honour; (its) admirable deeds can raise their performer above others.
Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?
A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself - it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of what is collected but of collecting.
Rebus lifted a Guardian
Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
I want you to carry this question home with you: gain such a victory, and what do you do with it?
Rewards, my tender pigpiss.
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
My profession is its own reward
I'm known as a winner now.Winner-- Brett Hull
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
What we earn isn't our worth. Our worth is so much more; it's priceless.
You see this face, these wrinkles? I earned every one of them
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse.
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Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.
I have acquired you, and now I will determine your value to me.
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.
via Ms. Vliegenthart this sixth of April, from
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition
Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate
Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great;
Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call,
They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.
Our receiving expands with our gratitude.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
There is wealth within the sound of your voice.
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Freely we received, freely we give.
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.