Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs… — Catharine MacKinnon 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
When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. — Heloise Copy Share Image
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire… — Plautus Copy Share Image
You will probably have but a short time to live. Before you launch into eternity, it behooves you to improve the time… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
If You Wish Your Merit To Be Known, Acknowledge That Of Other People... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
It is the way of grace. People do not merit salvation but receive it as a free gift from God on the… — Leon Morris Copy Share Image
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