Merit Quotes - Page 13

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read.

The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

The rich feel full of merit.

The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.

There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.