 What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service? Art thou not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it, just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking?  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Page 245by Paul Barron Watson - 1884 - 338 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...It is from the desire and obligation of what is just and good.' ° ' To ask to be paid for virtue is as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking.'6 In doing good, man ' should be like the vine which has produced grapes, and asks for nothing... | |
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...confer it absolutely, nor yet in such way as to have received from thy very act all the profit. For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose, and by working according to their several... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1865 - 334 pages
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it \ Yes," And again : — " What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking ?" Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, u 2 has to correct its apparent offers... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1865 - 332 pages
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it ? Yes." And again:— " What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for \\.,just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking i" Christianity, in... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced itsproper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so such a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on... | |
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...confer it absolutely, nor yet in such way as to have received from thy very act all the profit. For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose, and by working according to their several... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 526 pages
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...which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so such a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing further after it has produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tracked the game, a bee when it has made honey, so a man, when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it? Yes.' And again : — ' What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or (he feel for walking ?' Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, has to correct its... | |
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