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Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.
I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.
Guessing right for the wrong reason does not merit scientific immortality.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Each of us has been sent to earth by our Heavenly Father to merit eternal life
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.
See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.
What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.
But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.