Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
Trust and confidence in Christ and a ready reliance on His merits, mercy, and grace lead to hope, through His Atonement, in the Resurrection and eternal life. Such faith and hope invite into our lives the sweet peace of conscience for which we all yearn.
I don't think the world works on merit.
The more merit, the less affection.
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Good intentions do not guarantee good results. Somehow Andrew Keates turns works of merit into evenings of entertainment. Don't call him a dramaturge, call him an alchemist.
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
I judge each person on individual merits.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
. . . the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases. . . there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.
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. . .
