Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater. — Eddie Cahill Copy Share Image
“I'll have you in my bed again, Sentinel. And at my side. That is a promise.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits… — William Hazlitt 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
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a… — Paul Gambaccini Copy Share Image
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike 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
We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
