Quote by Bliss Carman
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point wher

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. – Bliss Carman

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art. – Bliss Carman

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Better bend than break. – Scottish Proverb

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. – Howard Hughes

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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. – Reginald W. Kaufman

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It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man. – Elbert Hubbard

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