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A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate  (Merit Quotes) Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another  (Merit Quotes) Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit  (Merit Quotes) The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it  (Merit Quotes) Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise  (Merit Quotes) When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive  (Merit Quotes) Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man  (Merit Quotes) The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice  (Merit Quotes) Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze  (Merit Quotes) Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in  (Merit Quotes) He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel  (Merit Quotes) Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought  (Merit Quotes) There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults  (Merit Quotes) The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise  (Merit 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  (Merit Quotes) Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?  (Merit Quotes) The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found  (Merit Quotes) The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of honest ambition, by raising an opinion that honour may be gained without the toil of merit  (Merit Quotes) Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one’s ego except by love  (Merit Quotes) We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously  (Merit Quotes) There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless  (Merit Quotes) Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you  (Merit Quotes) As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it  (Merit Quotes) We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves  (Merit Quotes) To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend  (Merit Quotes) We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don’t matter at all  (Merit Quotes) Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone  (Merit Quotes) Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn’t life’s business to reward merit, why should it be life’s business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?  (Merit Quotes) The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard  (Merit Quotes) Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own  (Merit Quotes)
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