Quotes with recompense

  • 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.

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  • Samuel Johnson 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, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Seneca May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Germaine Greer 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
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Confucius Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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, but because obligation is a pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Samuel Johnson You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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