Quotes 41 till 60 of 62.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143 -
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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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.
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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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There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.
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Thy modesty's candle to thy merit.
The Tragedy of Tragedies 1, 3 -
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
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