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Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E.B. White

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Just a few weeks before, no detail of my life had been big enough to merit my attention. — Amor Towles

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others. — Sax Rohmer

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar. — Swami Vivekananda

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

When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit. — Kevin O'Leary

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society. — John Rawls

No one is mandating merit pay. — Arne Duncan

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it. — Ada Leverson

There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields. — W. Somerset Maugham

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood. — Aaron Hill

Fame is no sure test of merit. — Thomas Carlyle

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence. — Friedrich Schiller

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you. — Tahir Shah

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge. — James Russell Lowell

But if my acts are good, sincerely intended, Then no matter where I turn my steps, The merit gained will honor me With its resulting benefits. — Santideva

Aw, sad face. I came up with that totally off the cuff. No props for off the cuff? — Chloe Neill

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. — Horace

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ... — Ada Leverson

No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. — Seneca The Younger

There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on its merits. — James Packer

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale ... Love loves; this is its nature. — Howard Thurman

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit. — Jalen Rose

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts ... Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me. — Bill Hicks

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. — Thomas Carlyle

No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is. — Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win. — Winston Churchill

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it. — William Law

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf. — Gautama Buddha

You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written promises and He will perform them. Are — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad. — C.S. Lewis

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless. — Isaac Asimov

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic. — James Joyce

Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right? — Lisa Renee Jones

We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting! — Steve Camp

It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer. — W. Somerset Maugham

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive. — Jean De La Bruyere

There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone. — Ilana Glazer

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid. — Ernest Rutherford

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit. — Carl Sagan

I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity. — Justin Trudeau

If you are not scared then there is no merit in being brave. — Kerry Greenwood

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. — Thorstein Veblen

We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior. — R.C. Sproul

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason ... — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth. — Laozi

In peace alone reason was heard and merit distinguished; but in the rage of war the blind steel spared the innocent no more than the guilty. — Tacitus

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner. — Isaac D'Israeli

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

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other. — Edmund Waller

But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. — Charlotte Bronte

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

It is valour which defines a kshatriya, a kshatriya does not define valour. You are known by the deeds done; merit has no pedigree. — Kavita Kane

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi