#merit

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. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#good #men #more #praise #public

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. ↗

— Horace

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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#certainly #consensus #even #first #first world

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Where we can compete on merit, we do very well. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#merit #very #well #where

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#ambition #aspired #graceful #indulgent #love

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ↗

— Lord Byron

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