A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Rutherford B. Hayes

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Walter Savage Landor

How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.

M. E. W. Sherwood

Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs.

Richard Hanson

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Khaled Hosseini

Time doesn't heal wounds; it only watches them take different shapes and forms until they look so different that where they came from is often obscured. The real capacity to heal inner wounds comes from heaven, not earth. Only the power of Jesus can go to the deep places and bring healing.

Robert Whitlow

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Ovid

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

Ovid

At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.

Annie Dillard

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

Timothy Keller

A wound needs air in order to heal. We must talk about and expose those things which have hurt or harmed us in some way. Our wounds need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist. We must carefully do what is necessary to help ourselves feel better.

Iyanla Vanzant

If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.

George Washington

The unmerited fear of genetically modified organism crops threatens scientific advancements in biotechnology needed to meet the growing global demand for safe and affordable food.