"Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation."
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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."
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"All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ."
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"Though strength be wanting, the will to action Merits praise."
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"Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise."
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"Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit."
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"Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck."
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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."
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"The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise."
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"Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work."
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"Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public."
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"A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall."
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"We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth."
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"A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance."
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"Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit."
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"America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God."
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"The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately."
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"Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have."
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"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."
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"The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit."
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