Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or merit:
“The highest end of government is the culture of men.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
Or good, or bad,disfigurd, or depravd,
All art, is at its resurrection savd;
All crownd with glory in the critics heavn,
Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
—Martin Archer, Sir Shee (17691850)
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