Merit Quotes
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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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.
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
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People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
