It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason... — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at… — Ilana Glazer Copy Share Image
Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good… — Dan Futterman Copy Share Image
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence,… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
By denying its musical and artistic merit, hip hop's critics get to have it both ways: they can deny the legitimate artistic… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this… — Hakim ibn Hizam Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We may not always get what we desire but we shall always get what we deserve. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. — Delphine de Girardin Copy Share Image
“The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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