Merit Quotes - Page 21

• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Opinion, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Silence, Achievement

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or two. One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea. Then you're free to look for new ones. What part of your idea are you in love with? What would happen if you kissed it goodbye?

  Roger von Oech

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Falling In Love

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• Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Self Improvement, Care, Deficiency

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• You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.

  Jane Roberts

  Forever, Asking, Trust Yourself

  "The Nature of Personal Reality".

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• Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a principle of holiness is imparted to him; the former can only be ascertained by the latter. It is impossible to obtain a Scriptural knowledge that the merits of Christ's finished work are reckoned to my account, except by proving that the efficacy of the Holy Spirit's work is evident in my soul.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Religious, Soul, Holiness

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• There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Faults, Spite

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• Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Leadership, Persistence, Views

  "Epistulae ad Familiares (Letters to Friends)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 9, Section 21), 62-43 BC.

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• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Praise, Lost

  Homerus, Alexander Pope (1718). “The Iliad of Homer”

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• When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

  Andrew Jackson

  Death, Strong, Sick

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• Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Littles, Circumstances

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Men, Ass

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.

  Alfred Nobel

  Life, Strong, Science

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• If heaven were by merit, it would never be heaven to me, for if I were in it I should say, "I am sure I am here by mistake; I am sure this is not my place; I have no claim to it." But if it be of grace and not of works, then we may walk into heaven with boldness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Faith, Christian

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Telling The Truth

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• The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

  James Madison

  Evil, Slavery, Magnitude

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• ... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Wrath, Mad

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.1050, Fortress Press

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• If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

  Dan Barker

  Religion, Atheism, Admitting

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• I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Thinking, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.553, Cambridge University Press

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• A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Fear, Believe

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.475, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Dost thou understand me, sinful soul? He wrestled with justice, that thou mightest have rest; He wept and mourned, that thou mightest laugh and rejoice; He was betrayed, that thou mightest go free; was apprehended, that thou mightest escape; He was condemned, that thou mightest be justified; and was killed, that thou mightest live; He wore a crown of thorns, that thou mightest wear a crown of glory; and was nailed to the cross, with His arms wide open, to show with what freeness all His merits shall be bestowed on the coming soul; and how heartily He will receive it into His bosom?

  John Bunyan

  Easter, Justice, Laughing

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.805, Delphi Classics

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• It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Rights, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.416

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• What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command respect, while the purely scientific, which possess far greater merit are almost unknown. And yet the latter are the proper source from which the others flow. Practice alone can never lead to the discovery of a truth or a principle. In Germany it is quite the contrary. Here in the eyes of scientific men no value, or at least but a trifling one, is placed upon the practical results. The enrichment of science is alone considered worthy attention.

  Justus von Liebig

  Eye, Science, Men

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• If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Judging, Historical

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