COMPENSATION

Related Subjects: Equality, Payment, Profit, Reward

1. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.—Bible, Galatians 6:7
   

2. Each loss has its compensation;
   There is healing for every pain;
   But the bird with the broken pinion
   Never soars so high again.—H. BUTTERWORTH, The Broken Pinion
   

3. O Lady! we receive but what we give,
   And in our life alone doth Nature live;
   Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud!—COLERIDGE, Dejection
   

4. Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.—EMERSON, Compensation
   

5. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.—EMERSON, Compensation
   

6. It is a comfort that the medal has two sides. There is much vice and misery in the world, I know; but more virtue and happiness, I believe.—JEFFERSON
   

7. Whatever difference may ap­pear in the fortunes of mankind, there is, nevertheless, a certain compensation of good and evil which makes them equal.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

8. Alas! by some degree of woe,
   We every bliss must gain;
   The heart can ne'er a transport know
   That never feels a pain.—LORD LYTTELTON, Song
   

9. Ashes follow blaze inevitably as death follows life. Misery treads on the heels of joy; anguish rides swift after pleasure.—D. G. MITCHELL, Reveries of a Bachelor
   

10. Whoever tries for great objects must suffer something.—PLUTARCH, Lives
    

11. If you would have a hen lay, you must bear with her cackling.—Proverb
    

12. There is no evil without its compensation. Avarice  promises money; luxury, pleasure; ambition, a purple robe.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Luciliurn
    

13. Every way we look we see even-handed nature administering her laws of compensation.—ALEXANDER SMITH, Dreamthorp
    

14. No joy so great but runneth to an end,
    No hap so hard but may in time amend.—ROBERT SOUTH WELL, Times Go by Turns
    

15. When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, accident or necessity seems usually to contrive that one shall encumber and impede the other.—SWINBURNE

16. There is no felicity upon earth, which carries not its counterpoise of misfortunes; no happiness which mounts so high, which is not depressed by some calamity.—JEREMY TAYLOR, Contemplation of the State of Man
    

17. And light is mingled with the gloom,
    And joy with grief;
    Divinest compensations come,
    Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom
    In sweet relief.—WHITTIER, Anniversary Poem