MERIT QUOTES IV

quotations about merit


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Merit is an abstract tally or record of the virtuous deeds performed by the individual in the course of his or her lifetime. It contrasts with demerit or sin, the tally of one's bad deeds. One's relative amounts of merit and sin determine one's fate in one's next life: The more merit and the less demerit one has when one dies, the better the state one will be reborn to.

SHERRY B. ORTNER
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Sherpas Through Their Rituals


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View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan,
And then deny him merit if you can.
Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone
Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.

CHARLES CHURCHILL

The Rosciad

Tags: Charles Churchill


True merit often finds its gold not distinguished from base metal.

H. HOOKER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Is not the merit of any creation determined primarily by the close and exact correspondence between the idea and its incarnation?

MME. SWETCHINE

The Writings of Madame Swetchine

Tags: Madame Swetchine


If we would honor merit, we must not judge by appearances; a vizored villain may seem fair.

G. BROWN

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is happy to have so much merit that our birth is the least thing respected in us.

A. B. DE SENECE

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


Real merit requires as much labor to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

FRANCIS ALEXANDER DURIVAGE

attributed, Day's Collacon


The spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Hamlet

Tags: William Shakespeare


There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Tags: François de La Rochefoucauld


A man without ceremony hath need of great merit in its place.

ROBERT DODSLEY

attributed, Day's Collacon


The man of merit hath too often to bend his back before men of vulgar souls.

BERACHJAHA-NAKDAN

attributed, Day's Collacon