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Merit Quotes
I dont 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. - Mary Wortley Quotes
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. - George Santayana Quotes
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work. - Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes
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. - Stephen Jay Gould Quotes
Theres always merit to having a debate. - Ward Churchill Quotes
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. - Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. - George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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. - Philip Stanhope Quotes
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. - Thomas Sydenham Quotes
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--t is a consummation Devoutly to be wishd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, theres the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: theres the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressors wrong, the proud mans contumely, The pangs of despised love, the laws delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscoverd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. - William Shakespeare Quotes
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. - Knut Hamsun Quotes
I think theres a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but theyre not sufficient because markets dont look after social needs. - George Soros Quotes
The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it. - Horatio Seymour Quotes
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. - Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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. - Thomas Clarkson Quotes
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope Quotes
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. - Henry Lawson Quotes
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. - Thorstein Veblen Quotes
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. - Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. - Joseph Addison Quotes
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. - Voltaire Quotes
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. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men. - Alexander Pope Quotes
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. - Alexander Pope Quotes
Should I be so happy as to merit your patronage, I flatter myself neither you nor my country, could have any occasion to regret. - John Sevier Quotes
It wasnt glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didnt merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought. - Kate Adie Quotes
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. - Charlotte Bronte Quotes
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. - George Byron Quotes
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. - Coco Chanel Quotes
The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be. - Charles Babbage Quotes
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