Top Merit Quotes
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
Kate Adie
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
Edward F. Halifax
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Francis Wright
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Henry Lawson 
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William Banting 
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What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.
Piers Anthony 
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
William Banting
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Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould
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I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.
Horatio Seymour
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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.
James Russell Lowell
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
Thomas Sydenham
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
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