Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. — Horace Copy Share Image
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whether you like Mourinho's style or not is open to discussion but he has won in different places and this has a… — Diego Simeone Copy Share Image
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. — Fujiwara no Teika Copy Share Image
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art. — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
It's nice to be able to make a room full of people laugh, and there is a lot of merit to stand-up… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly,… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“[Louis Rendu] collects observations, makes experiments, and tries to obtain numerical results; always taking care, however, so to state his premises and… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit. — Joel Klein Copy Share Image
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get… — Susan Oliver Copy Share Image
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There's merit in ministers being just open with the public about the inherent complexity and uncertainty of many of the decisions that… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
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