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“It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.”

Has Beens Country Character Might Attention Circumstances Fortune Excited Favors Pity Merit Might Have Been Sergeants Concurrence Cromwell

Book:Essays and poems, by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author

Source: Essays and poems, by Dr. Oliver Goldsmith. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author

“First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”

Firsts Chance Objects Produce Circumstances Essentials Foolish Variety Merit First Love Chances Are Proximity

Book:Works

Source: Works

“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.”

Men Persons Order Born Chance Ability Depends Circumstances Noble Merit Distinction Disposition Public Service Parades Ancestry Notorious Amiable Insolence Pedigree

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

Men Two Found Sides Quality Moral Virtue Circumstances Essentials Regard Faults Vices Merit Concealed Two Sides Badges

Book:History of English Literature

Source: History of English Literature

“Imposed philosophical morality (laws/rules) will not save the world. Only a calculated tangible plan to alter our circumstances so such actions pose no merit will stop immoral behaviour.”

World Action Law Plans Circumstances Morality Philosophical Merit Behaviour Immoral Tangible Save The World

Author:Peter Joseph

“There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.”

Faces Discipline Circumstances Ideals Merit Worthless

Author:Isaac Asimov