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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. -- Confucius
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. -- William Hazlitt
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. -- Joseph Epstein
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
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
If you practice an excellent virtue without perceiving the taste of its aid, do not marvel; for until a man becomes humble, he will not receive a reward for his labor. Recompense is given, not for labor, but for humility. -- Isaac of Nineveh
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. -- Khalil Gibran
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
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again! -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend. -- Thomas Gray
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 this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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
Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human race. -- Andre-Marie Ampere
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy. -- Stanley Cavell
Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that 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
Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. -- William Shakespeare
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such. -- William Cowper
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. -- Arthur Smith
Public esteem is the recompense of honest men. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense. -- Fanny Burney
Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life. -- Elizabeth Keckley
Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain. -- Bryant McGill
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life. -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
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
When the day of recompense comes, our only regret will be that we have done so little for Him, not that we have done too much. -- George Muller
Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense. -- Bryant McGill
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense. -- Bryant McGill
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 while I live. -- Elizabeth Chase Allen
Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed. -- William Shakespeare
We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living. -- Fennel Hudson
Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try. -- Dee Hock
Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back. -- Thomas Carlyle

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