We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. — Horace Copy Share Image
Appreciation is wonderful feeling, don't overlook it. Appreciation is acknowledgement of ones merit and his achievement. — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise -… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm… — Dave Chappelle 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
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is… — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
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