Definition of merits

"merits" in the noun sense

1. merit, virtue

any admirable quality or attribute

"work of great merit"

2. deservingness, merit, meritoriousness

the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance

"there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"

"merits" in the verb sense

1. deserve, merit

be worthy or deserving

"You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"

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Quotations for merits

He that has no charity merits no mercy. [ Proverb ]

On their own merits modest men are dumb. [ George Colman ]

Assume the proud place your merits have won. [ Horace ]

He little merits bliss who others can annoy. [ Thomson ]

Virtue merits veneration, wherever she appears. [ Proverb ]

Offenses generally outweigh merits with great men. [ Proverb ]

He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own end. [ Proverb ]

He that does good for praise only merits but a puff of wind. [ Proverb ]

Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

It is a species of slander, to lessen the merits or exaggerate the failings of others. [ W. Gilpin ]

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. [ Richter ]

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. [ Charron ]

Cherish every sentiment of respect for your mother; she merits your warmest gratitude, esteem, and veneration. [ Percival ]

There is in us a tendency to exaggeration; we exaggerate the merits of our friends, and the worthlessness of our enemies. [ Bovee ]

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature: we find in her all the merits of both sexes. [ La Bruyere ]

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. [ Epictetus ]

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exert herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat. [ Colton ]

Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. [ Barrow ]

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. [ Chamfort ]

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise. [ Euripides ]

Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What, said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart? He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]

A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]

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The word merits is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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merits in Words With Friends™

The word merits is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Words containing the sequence merits

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Word Growth involving merits

Shorter words in merits

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Longer words containing merits

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