"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
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"It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other."
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"Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone."
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"A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence."
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
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"I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ."
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"The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects."
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"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess."
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"Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile."
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"To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear."
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"The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Misfortune is the test of a person's merit."
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"When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you."
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"Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work."
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"Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business."
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"Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it."
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"Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit."
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"In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise."
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"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
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