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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
— Keir Starmer
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
— Nicolas Malebranche
No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.
— John Rawls
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
— Lord Chesterfield
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
— George Colman
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
— Paul Eldridge
God alone is God, and he alone merits first place - beyond every other love, every other anxiety, every other fear that consumes us.
— Craig S. Keener
Try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's merits and ... results ... I wish you the best in your difficult task.
— Albert Schweitzer
Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.
— Marlin Stutzman
I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
— Eddie Cahill
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
— Publilius Syrus
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
— Park Geun-hye
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
— George Bernard Shaw
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
— Louis Kronenberger
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.
— Bryan Chapell
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
— James Anthony Froude
It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I want to be judged on my own merits.
— Park Geun-hye
A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.
— Lee Haney
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life ...
— Leo Tolstoy
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
— Sebastian Junger
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
True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
— Augustus William Hare
But whosoever recount his true merits to Thee, what is it that he recounts to Thee but Thine own gifts? Oh, if men would know themselves to be men ...
— Augustine Of Hippo
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.
— Mason Cooley
Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.
— Richard Barnet
Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.
— Yogi Bhajan
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
— Mark Twain
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
— Julian Fellowes
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.
— Amy Hardie
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.
— Charles Spurgeon
We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The saved are singled out not by their own merits, but by the grace of the Mediator.
— Martin Luther
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I treat them the way I want to be treated - based on their individual merits as human beings, not on their skin tone.
— Jodi Picoult
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.
— Fred Upton
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
He had just been palatable, like ketchup. Ketchup had its merits. But no one would ever fill a bowl with that stuff.
— Bella Forrest
People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
— John Sweeney
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
— John Maynard Keynes
A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base.
— Christopher Priest
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things.
— Matt Holliday
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
— Edward Kennedy
France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.
— William Shakespeare
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
— Torquato Tasso
The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.
— C.V. Wedgwood
Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
— Anton Chekhov
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A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
— Karl Kraus
Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.
— Confucius
God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.
— Martin Luther
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. — Alexander Rodchenko
On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.
— Ron Barber
Why the histories of states should have so persistently insinuated themselves in the place that might have been occupied by peoples merits reflection.
— James C. Scott
To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults
— Sunday Adelaja
making judgments under the pressure of a crisis, about weighing the relative merits of various choices with potentially catastrophic outcomes.
— Timothy F. Geithner
In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones.
— Fujiwara No Teika
Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies. — Robert A. Heinlein
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
— Lois McMaster Bujold
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
— Harold Brodkey
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— Thomas Aquinas
