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.
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.
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.
I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends;
And as my fortune ripens with thy love,
It shall be still thy true love's recompense.
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has caught the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season. Must a man then be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it Yes. What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service Art thou not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it, just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet should demand a recompense for walking.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
I ask no recompense, I shall not fail
Although you do not heed; the long, sad years
Still pass, and still I scatter flowers frail,
And whisper words of love which no one hears.
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.
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.
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.
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.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Fortune There is no fortune all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.
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