He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Let’s just remember, Sullivan, that I want you for your smoked meats and your smoked meats only.” He barked out a laugh.… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it,… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
It’s not our job to assess the merit of our vision or judge its importance. It is our job to receive the… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth… — James Packer Copy Share Image
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being… — Daniel Starch Copy Share Image
Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice,… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin Copy Share Image
“Look. I know why you gave me that speech earlier today. I know you have an obligation to protect your vampires. But… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
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