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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Blaise Pascal
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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?
David Paden Marchand
AFI
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron
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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.
Norm MacDonald
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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.
Lloyd Doggett
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Eric Temple Bell
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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
William James
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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.
Emily Bronte
