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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.
A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.
Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.
A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.
We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
Salvation has absolutely nothing to do with human merit and absolutely everything to do with divine mercy.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.
What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.
I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
God chose to set his love on the Israelites not because of any merit in them but solely because of mercy in him.
I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.
All the films that I have signed or I intend to sign are purely on the basis of merit of what the films are about.
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.
Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Legal immigration should emphasize merit and meeting the needs of the U.S., including specific unmet workforce needs.
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.