Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

In the presence of the storm thunderbolts hurricane rain darkness and the lions which might be concealed but a few paces away he felt disarmed and helpless.

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.