It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes,… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Neither, am I single or committed. I am simply reserved for someone who really deserves me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit. — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“You’re wearing your medal,” he said. I grazed the gold with my fingertips. “I wasn’t sure if I should, if it was… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
