Compromise Level

Famous quotes containing the words compromise and/or level:

“Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)