The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention. — Amy Hardie 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
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what… — Riz Ahmed Copy Share Image
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
“True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't get the LOVE we deserve because we don't give the LOVE they deserve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
