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desired ends Pierre Lanier unlike
While cruelly conscienceless in pursuit of desired ends, Pierre Lanier, unlike Paul, never permitted passion to interfere with matured or maturing plans.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

decus et patriae laus una
This passage seems to be the earliest instance of laus 'object of praise; reason for praise' used of a person: TLL VII.2 1064 73 ff. cites from classical Latin only Eleg Maec 17-18 'Pallade cum docta Phoebus donauerat artes; / tu decus et laudes huius et huius eras', Valerius Flaccus II 243-44 'decus et patriae laus una ruentis, / Hypsipyle', Silius XIII 824, and Martial I xlix 2-3 'nostraeque laus Hispaniae ...
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

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