Merit Quotations | Page 5
Merit Quotes from:
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Jean De La Bruyere
- Alexander Pope
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- Joseph Addison
- Lord Chesterfield
- Samuel Johnson
- Benjamin Franklin
- Christian Nestell Bovee
- George Bernard Shaw
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Hazlitt
- Bertrand Russell
- David Platt
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Jack Abramoff
- Jane Austen
- John Calvin
- John Dryden
- Martin Luther
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Punishment Quotes
The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
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Father Quotes
...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.
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Ancestry Quotes
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.