Recompense Quotes

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What Iâ€™m talking about is more than recompense for past injusticesâ€”more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What Iâ€™m talking… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even… — William Penn
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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,… — Samuel Johnson
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes… — Rabindranath Tagore
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them… — Elizabeth Chase Allen
I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth… — Samuel Rutherford
Public esteem is the recompense of honest men. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. — Khalil Gibran
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. — Germaine Greer
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. — William Hazlitt
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure,… — Samuel Johnson
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — Emanuel Swedenborg
If only it were possible to love without injury â€“ fidelity isnâ€™t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.… — Graham Greene
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are… — Albert Camus
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man,… — Anne Bradstreet
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night… — Hermann Hesse
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, â€˜Child of earth, what… — Alexandre Dumas

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