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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
Author:
John Zimmerman
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Author:
Francis Wright
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I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Author:
Voltaire
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In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Author:
Thorstein Veblen
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
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Marquis Vauvenargues
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
Author:
Sachin Tendulkar
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What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.
Author:
Henry Temple
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
Author:
Thomas Sydenham
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
Author:
George Soros
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It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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Sophocles
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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
Author:
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Author:
George Shaw
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.
Author:
Horatio Seymour
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Author:
Paul Scofield
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The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Author:
Jose Santos
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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Author:
George Santayana
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
Author:
Sallust
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.
Author:
Lee Raymond
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The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
Author:
Annie Proulx
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
Author:
Frederick Pollock
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Author:
Petrarch
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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.
Author:
Susan Oliver
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Author:
James Lowell
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Author:
Henry Lawson
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I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Author:
Joseph Lancaster
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At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
Author:
Norman Lamm
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The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
Author:
Sue Kelly
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Author:
Horace
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How vain, without the merit, is the name.
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Homer
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Author:
Georg Hegel
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
Author:
Dennis Hastert
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.
Author:
Knut Hamsun
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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Author:
Edward Halifax
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I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right editor recognize their merit or have not been adequately published.
Author:
James Gunn
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Author:
Stephen Gould
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Author:
Jean Fabre
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Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.
Author:
Brian Eno
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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Author:
Charles Colton
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
Author:
Thomas Clarkson
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There's always merit to having a debate.
Author:
Ward Churchill
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I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.
Author:
Jung Chang
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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.
Author:
Coco Chanel
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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Author:
Arthur Capper
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
Author:
John Calvin
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Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Author:
George Byron
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
Author:
Jim Barksdale
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
Author:
William Banting
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another.
Author:
John Austin
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Author:
Joseph Addison
