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Definition of Reap

Reap

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.

To clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.

To deprive of the beard; to shave.

To perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.

A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

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Reap Quotations

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
Joel Osteen

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
James Madison

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas Kempis

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
Robert Collier

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Robert Collier

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.
Wynton Marsalis

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.
Brian De Palma

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
Larry Elder

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
Anna Lindh

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
Frances Wright

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
Craig Johnston

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles W. Chesnutt

You cannot mock God because whatever good thing you do, you're gonna reap for it.
Joseph Prince

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.
Scott Reed

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Reap Translations

reap in German is ernten
reap in Italian is raccogliere
reap in Latin is lift tondeo totonsi tonsum
reap in Spanish is cosechar, segar

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