Recompense Quotes

• 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

  Gratitude, Pain, Revenge

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

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• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

  Confucius

  Love, Wise, Kindness

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Desire, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.65, 1st World Publishing

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• May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Justice, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

  William Hazlitt

  Memories, Poor, Contempt

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Women, Reality, Deviousness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Thank You, Kindness

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• In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

  Joseph Epstein

  Envy, May, Sin

  Joseph Epstein (2003). “Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Giving, Charity, Pay

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.33

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• 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

  Years, Giving, Childhood

  Elizabeth Akers Allen, “Rock Me To Sleep”

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• 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

  Friendship, Heaven, Soul

  Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard”

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• 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

  Excess, Merit, Wealth

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• 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

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• 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

  Book, Dumb, Tongue

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

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• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

  Confucius

  Stars, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• 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

  Regret, Done, Littles

  George Muller (1996). “The Autobiography of George Muller”, p.98, Whitaker House

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• As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the means which they use to recompense themselves for their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them which they themselves pay to all above them.

  Henry Fielding

  Mean, People, Bird

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• 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

  Stars, Fate, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will”, p.26, 1st World Publishing

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• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Sacrifice, Body

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• 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

  Work, Heart, Suffering

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.831, Delphi Classics

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• The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness.

  Francois de la Noue

  Ignorance, Punishment, Names

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Men, Giving

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• When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.

  Zicheng Hong

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Self

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• They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.

  Mira Grant

  Wall, Men, Risk

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.111, Hachette UK

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