#merit

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#duck #effort #hear #hears #just

Merit should count more than academic background. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#background #count #merit #more #should

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

#class #compassion #lives #merit #middle

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. ↗

— Elinor Wylie

#escaped #fear #file #go #masks

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. ↗

— Susan Oliver

#centres #cities #death #died #get

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. ↗

— Ovid

#calmness #grief #must #pain #suffered

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

#born #fortune #honorable #merit #more

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. ↗

— John Podesta

#clinton #considered #his #i #i believe

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. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cases #considered #few #i #i think