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Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author

“The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.”

Thinking World Levels Delight Superiors Merit

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“Nuclear Weapons merit unequivocal and unhesitating condemnation”

Religious Weapons Nuclear Merit Nuclear Weapons Condemnation Unequivocal

Author:William Sloane Coffin

“The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.”

Thinking World Humans Long Important Reality Opportunity Social Pay Needed Activity Discovery Areas Perseverance Merit Wages Avoided North Pole

Author:Karl Kraus

“What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.”

Want Merit Collaboration Publishers

Author:Piers Anthony

“A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.”

Firsts Stills Next Degrees Merit Good Thoughts Boon

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.”

Ifs Men Firsts Looks Stories Novel Tests Tables Finals Tea Merit Chapters Sofas

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?”

Should Years Stills Names Century Months Tongue Beer Merit Infant Bass Guinness

Book:Fly Leaves

Source: Fly Leaves

“Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.”

Merit

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.”

Effort Moral Salvation Merit Motivated

Book:The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

“The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.”

Men Needs Friendship He Man Friends Bears Prove Esteem Merit Toms Pardon Hail

Author:William Cowper

“Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.”

People Practice Path Yoga Areas Maturity Merit Lacking Yoga Practice

Author:Geeta Iyengar

“It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.”

Virtue Rewards Vices Merit Conventions Arbitrary Vice And Virtue

Author:Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”

Born Fortune Raised Merit Thrones Honorable Medieval War

Author:Petrarch

“The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.”

Knows Seems Attention Merit Modesty Sage Noticing

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.”

Thinking Century Periods Merit

Author:Julian Fellowes

“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.”

Alive Reputation Merit

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”

Humans Merit Exaggeration Exaggerating Exaggeration Is

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.”

Love Fashion Merit Charm Display

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.”

Saws Merit Abstract Neutrality Impartiality

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!”

Clear Office Degrees Dignity Merit Honour Estates

Author:William Shakespeare

“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.”

Idiot Merit Distinction Generalization General Knowledge

Author:William Blake

“Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.”

People Way Mind May Book Whole Seems Able Form Young Results Direct Mark Brilliant Excellent Merit Collections Passages Nevertheless Quotations Scope Cultivation Praiseworthy

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.”

Able Knowledge Cases Special Merit Description

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.”

Art Real Reality Essence Merit Distinction

Book:Views and reviews; essays in appreciation: I. Literature. II. Art

Source: Views and reviews; essays in appreciation: I. Literature. II. Art

“Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.”

Criticism Merit

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.”

Wealth Praise Fortune Merit Enjoyment Excess Obliged Riot Banquets Recompense Commendation

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.”

Men Play Fun Pleasure Fit Degrees Laughter Jokes Horse Fellows Loud Merit Contempt Familiarity Respectable Merry Respectable Man

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

Soul Winning Sight Strikes Vain Merit Charm Pretty Eyes

Author:Alexander Pope

“The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?”

Care Goodness Merit Peculiar

Book:A collection of essays, episodes and odes

Source: A collection of essays, episodes and odes

“Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.”

Wise Bears Praise Raises Merit Fear Not Reproof

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.”

Firsts Book Next Criticism Praise Merit

Book:Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen

“The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.”