Quotes with compensate

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• If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

  Lawana Blackwell
  English writer
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• I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

  Andrew Vachss
  American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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• Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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• No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

  David O. McKay
  American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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• So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

  Marquis de Sade
  French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imagination
• cultivation
• discretion
• long-term
• financial
• abilities

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