Merit Quotes
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The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
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Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
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Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.
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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
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Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?
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He would not bring this case, at what is probably the end of his career, unless it was a case with great merit.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.
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I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.
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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
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To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons for rejection. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.
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...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
