He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own
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God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty?
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I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.
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Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit
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Because a Bodhisattva who gives a gift should not be supported by a thing, nor should he be supported anywhere. The great being should give gifts in such a way that he is not supported by the notion of a sign and why? Because the heap of merit of tha
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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
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There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks
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A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
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He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying
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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 offence that one appreciates them.
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Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
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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.
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Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty
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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
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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.
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Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to
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Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighbor are nothing (3) That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith (4) That reason in religion
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