From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
Charles Sumner
Related From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis... TRYON EDWARDS From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis... CHARLES SUMNER From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromi... CHARLES SUMNER From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis... CHARLES SUMNER From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis... CHARLES SUMNER From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis... LUDWIG ERHARD REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling. AMBROSE BIERCE Repose is the most expansive posture you can assume. When you are in Repose, your body is as open an... VICTOR SHAMAS Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy. RALPH WALDO EMERSON For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a... CHARLES HANDY The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an ad... CHARLES HANDY We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable HENRY BROOKS ADAMS ...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It ... ALEXANDRE DUMAS I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness ... LOUIS XIV Sometimes you have no right to be tired! You have to work till you reach the glory! Sometimes you mu... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will m... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form f... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Our foster-nurse of nature is repose WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tenderness is the repose of Passion JOSEPH JOUBERT Tenderness is the repose of passion. JOSEPH JOUBERT It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the frees... BURGESS OWENS The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South... HIRAM RHODES REVELS Repose is not a discipline or practice. To experience Repose, you do not need to adhere to any speci... VICTOR SHAMAS If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. JULIE-JEANNE-ELEONORE DE LESPINASSE Indulging no passions which trespass on the rights or the repose of other nations, it has been the t... JAMES MADISON Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that a... JEANNETTE RANKIN The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh... GASTON BACHELARD Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother VOLTAIRE We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i... GARY WEISS Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compro... HORST KOEHLER The self-respect of a person is only the amount of trust that the people can repose on him/her for t... ANUJ SOMANY We have been abandoned by our own country. AARON BROUSSARD Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain! WILLIAM HAZLITT I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be co... ANDREW CARNEGIE God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. RALPH WALDO EMERSON A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts... LORETTA YOUNG Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. CYRIL CONNOLLY When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose. ANN RADCLIFFE It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people,... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, whe... JAMES STEPHENS Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. H. W. LONGFELLOW Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose. UNKNOWN The art of measurement, by showing us the truth would have brought our soul into the repose of abidi... PROTAGORAS Nothing like this has been seen in this country. And if it continues moving forward, it's the beginn... JOSHUA HOYT Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Without one friend, above all foes,
Britannia gives the world repose. WILLIAM COWPER God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never h... RALPH WALDO EMERSON God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON A region of repose it seems,
A place of slumber and of dreams. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of t... BILL BRYSON Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX 'Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much t... RAYMOND WILLIAMS Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. WILLIAM BLAKE You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. INDIRA GANDHI We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. INDIRA GANDHI Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in ... JOHN MUIR The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. ... WILLIAM HAZLITT Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act wit... THOMAS MERTON It creates a place for fish to hide and it reduces the angle of repose to reduce erosion. MIKE TURNER Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when... JAMIE DIMON Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions EDWARD COKE Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions. EDWARD COKE There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose o... HENRY DAVID THOREAU The mere chink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose GEORGE GISSIE The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from... BRUCE GORDON The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from... BRUCE S. GORDON The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the m... AYN RAND The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the mor... AYN RAND The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposit... THOMAS JEFFERSON He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace MIKHAIL LERMONTOV God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never hav... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. AMBROSE BIERCE The town of L— represented the earth, with its sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of ... THOMAS DE QUINCEY Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor's nose. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an a... ANDREW CARNEGIE When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. LEONARD COHEN a collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repo... WES CRAVEN LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. AMBROSE BIERCE Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. OLIVER GOLDSMITH Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom... HUN SEN Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca... TACITUS The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor ca... PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenanc... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried ... JOSEF PIEPER It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are f... ABIGAIL ADAMS This country has a long history of defining its generations by the conflicts that should have killed... OMAR EL AKKAD I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and importan... JOHN BARRASSO Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. THOMAS OTWAY Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. THOMAS OTWAY Honest men are the soft, easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. THOMAS OTWAY I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei... EMILY BRONTë A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man
who does it needs a day's sustenan... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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