Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
God never promises exemption. He does promise companionship, which is better. He does not promise do deliver you or me or any other individual from pain, sorrow, or economic disaster, but He does give assurance the He will help us through and that there will be compensations. "I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you. " These are the words of Jesus.
Every season of life has its compensations.
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks. . . all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.
Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.
That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
