"Higher than the question of our duration is……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Deserving Quotes

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
• Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh… — George Henry Borrow
• We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this… — Moby
• Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself. — Rick Pitino
• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for… — Aristotle
• We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is… — Larry Page
• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
• The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt
• In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the… — Thomas Jefferson
• There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it. — Ivan Panin
• Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. — B. B. Warfield

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