Merit Quotes - Page 10

• The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

  William Law

  Kindness, Charity, Persons

  William Law (1848). “A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young”, p.95

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• Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Memories, Men

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.258

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• Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

  Susan Fletcher

  Strong Women, Sex, Clever

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• In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

  Lord Byron

  Hope, Heaven, Earth

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.

  Meera

  Buddhism, Men, Water

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• There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

  William Nicholson

  Compassion, Class, Middle

  "William Nicholson: middle classes not fashionable for books or TV dramas". The Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 12, 2011.

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• I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

  Daniel Morgan

  Believe, Christ, Saved

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• Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

  William Law

  Charity, Scripture, Made

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.68, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

  John Locke

  Men, Theatre, Good Work

  John Locke (1825). “The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon”, p.140

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• There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

  John Lubbock

  Believe

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• The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Sitting Still, Justice

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.92, VM eBooks

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• Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of the obedience or righteousness there was in it.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Suffering, Satisfaction, Christ

  "Works, Vol. 5". Book by Jonathan Edwards, E. Baines, p. 489, 1809.

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• There are remuneration packages that will no longer be tolerated because they bear no relation to merit. That those who create jobs and wealth may earn a lot of money is not shocking. But that those who contribute to destroying jobs and wealth also earn a lot of money is morally indefensible.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Jobs, May, Bears

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• To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Cost, Environment

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Squares, Should

  Speech at New York State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 Sept. 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 11

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• Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fondness

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.227

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• A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Romance, Tasks, Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.87, Booklassic

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• It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Speak, Sorrowful

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

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• Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Clarity, Substitutes

  "The Elements of Style". Book by E. B. White, Ch. V: An Approach to Style, 1959.

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• More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Glorious

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

  James A. Michener

  Horse, Children, War

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.

  Michael Crichton

  Mean, Acceptance, White

  Michael Crichton's Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, www.epw.senate.gov. September 28, 2005.

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• Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in doing it, that that perfect obedience, from this moment, would not acquire in the remainder of your life, enough merit to atone for one past sin, because God exacts and God demands perfect obedience and there's no merit for giving him the minimal requirement.

  Paris Reidhead

  Past, Giving, Perfect

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• Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

  Longchenpa

  Practice, Support, Progress

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• America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

  Calvin Coolidge

  America, Purpose, Favors

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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