Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and… — Julia Gillard 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
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby Copy Share Image
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title. — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence. — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Now whatever you think of the liberal agenda on its merits, until very recently nobody thought the Constitution meant what liberals now… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit. — Denis Fonvizin Copy Share Image
Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is… — Lewis Fry Richardson Copy Share Image
