As you sow, so you reap
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As you sow, so you reap
With allusion to galatians vi. 7 (AV) Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Swa eal manna bearn sorgum sawath, swa eft ripath [just as each son of man sows in grief, so he also reaps].
[a 900 Cynewulf Christ in Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records (1936) III. 5]
Such as thei haue sowyn, such xall thei repe.
[c 1470 Mankind in Macro Plays (1962) l. 180]
And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, you are like to reap.
[1664 S. Butler Hudibras ii. ii.]
As men have sown they must still reap. The profligate‥may recover‥peace of mind‥but no miracle takes away his paralysis.
[1871 J. A. Froude Short Studies 2nd Ser. 10]
‘You should never have left them,’ said Irma. ‘As you sow, Praxis, so you reap.’
[1978 F. Weldon Praxis xxiv.]
‘But like it says in the Bible,’ said Jennifer, ‘as you sow, so shall you reap.’
[2000 ‘C. Aird’ Little Knell (2001) iii. 29]
Related to: action and consequence
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