“Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.” ReasonWishPrayerDependsPrayingAimAppealsMeritRemedyFervent Author:Carter G. Woodson
“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.” RunningDesireIndividualWishExistenceQualityAchievementGloryVanityMeritAppreciatedWhimFrivolousPersonal Qualities Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those hypotheses. But in order that this work merit the name of Geometry, it is necessary that these hypotheses or postulates express the result of the more simple and elementary observations of physical figures.” OrderNamesWishSimpleResultsFiguresConsequenceObservationMeritLogicalHypothesisGeometry Author:Giuseppe Peano
“Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.” IfsWarEvilWishRewardsInevitableMeritCivil War Book:The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.” PeopleMenSoulPoetryWishBehindsHe ManWorthyOilMeritDreadRhymeApplauseCedarsHerringTime To LeaveFrankincense Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus
“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.” PeopleIfsMenTryingLittlesCertainWishJusticeGraceWeaknessGainsAffectionMeritDominant Author:Lord Chesterfield