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“No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.”

Natural Greater Deserve Capacity Starting Merit

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.”

People Men Eye Common Wonder Judging Honor Fame Deserve Slave Ill Titles Merit Popularity

Author:Horace

“In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.”

Ifs Men Giving Looks Persons Humanity Given He Man Deserve Charity Merit Alms

Author:Francis Quarles

“Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.”

Eye Desire Views Higher Deserve Perfection Faults Appreciation Merit

Author:John Frederick Boyes

“'There may be some, perhaps - I don't know that there are - who abuse his kindness,' said Mr. Wickfield. 'Never be one of those, Trotwood, in anything. He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.”

Knows May Said Character Interesting Kindness Mankind Deserve Doctors Abuse Merit Consideration Suspicious Dealings Interesting Characters

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“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.”

Persons Kindness Deserve Charity Merit Acts Of Kindness

Book:A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young

Source: A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young

“You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!”

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.”

Should Left Masters Genius Understood Deserve Bars Merit Repeats Sincere Proceeding Later In Life

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.”

“I don't sense that people are loving the adults the way they have learned to love kids, because the truth is, they're not going to be cute in the same as kids are. And they shouldn't have to be cute to deserve and merit our attention and support.”

People Way Kids Attention Support Truth Is Adults Deserve Cute Merit Kids Love

Author:John Donvan

“I think there's a faith formula in that verse: believe plus receive equals become. So I think believing's important, having intellectual agreement with Christian doctrine is important, but there has to be a time when we receive God's gift of grace - not that we've earned it or merit it or deserve it - but receive this free gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased on the cross for us.”

Thinking Believe Important Christian Jesus Grace Eternal Intellectual Deserve Crosses Doctrine Merit Agreement Plus Formulas Verses Eternal Life Christian Doctrine Free Gifts

Author:Lee Strobel

“We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.”

Want May Mean Reality Depends Deserve Institutions Merit Sat Score Concrete Tempted Entry Sat Scores

Author:Eric Liu

“Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.”

Men Should Use Honor Deserve Dignity Every Man Desert Merit Bounty Whipping Scapes

Book:The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Source: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.”

Thinking Bits Deserve Rewards Merit

Author:Julian Barnes

“Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752