"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
Full 'Joseph Joubert' Quote
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Joseph Joubert
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"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Full 'Alexander Pope' Quote
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Alexander Pope
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"intention, not the deed, wherein the merit or praise of the doer consists...."
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Peter Abelard
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"a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal..."
Full 'John Calvin' Quote
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John Calvin
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"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog"
Full 'Mark Twain' Quote
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Mark Twain
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"is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits...."
Full 'Paul Eldridge' Quote
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Paul Eldridge
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"advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts...."
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Booker T. Washington
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"by which the world looks for and finds merit...."
Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote
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James Russell Lowell
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"fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything...."
Full 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel' Quote
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything...."
Full 'Georg Hegel' Quote
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Georg Hegel
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"The merit of an action lies in finishing it to the end."
Full 'Genghis Khan' Quote
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Genghis Khan
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"particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are that..."
Full 'William Blake' Quote
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William Blake
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"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
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Edward F Halifax
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