Compensations Quotes
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There are compensations for growing older.One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.
Cornelia Otis Skinner— Attributed.
Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.
warren farrell— p. 215. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
james anthony froude— Bunyan (1880), Ch. X, p. 175; a 2005 edition is also available from Kessinger Publishing ISBN 1-417-97107-X
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
edgar allan poe— The Raven and Other Poems (1845), Preface
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, Anniversary Poem, Stanza 15.
