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“When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.”

Looks May Has Beens Remember Death Objects Regard Merit Veils Intercourse Unkindness

Author:Reginald Heber

“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.”

People Knows Whole Action Chance Honest Depends Regard Fortune Neighbor Whole Life Esteem Reputation Merit Acquire Harvest Good Fortune Usefulness Proximity

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”

People Thinking World Mean Light Mistake Company Birth Regard Merit Consideration Endeavor

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

Men Two Found Sides Quality Moral Virtue Circumstances Essentials Regard Faults Vices Merit Concealed Two Sides Badges

Book:History of English Literature

Source: History of English Literature

“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.”

Men Shows Authority Respect Regard Folks Pity Ass Merit Gaudy Angry Women

Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.”

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.”

World Ideas Philosophy Political Modern Judging Fit Intellectual Economics Regard Features Merit Characteristics Conception New Ideas Readiness

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.”

Persons Literature Memories Appreciate Regard Merit Posterity

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.”

Persons Doe Eye Behinds Clear Imagine Plans Succeed Equal Shadow Hatred Regard Intention Surface Flames Merit Exposed Justification Defects

Author:Marcel Proust