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“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.”

Source: Thoughts

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.”

Writing May Sometimes Moral Mankind Taste Judgment Weak Unions Faults Excellence Combination Merit Disgusting Transcendent

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.”

Ifs Giving Helping Mankind Bears Equal Weight Envy Scales Superiors Acknowledge Merit Thrown Ridicule Casting Malice

Author:William Hazlitt

“'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

“Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.”

Kind Mankind Military Glory Reflection Praise Merit Heroism Sublime Generalities Sanguine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.”

Humans States America Purpose Mankind Divine Higher Favors Merit Cherish Almighty Allegiance Almighty God

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.”

Men Doe Order Goal Virtue Mankind Dangerous Goodness Institutions Merit Goodness Of God

Book:Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.”

Ifs Knows Persons Doe Art Ends Motivational Energy One Thing Mankind Raises Excellence Merit Crowns Life And Love Benefactors Lentils

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story

“It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.”

Men Seems Law Mankind Divine Skills Killing Forgotten Merit Injury Attributes Saviour Love And Forgiveness

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace