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He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers
Zoroaster
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William S. Gilbert
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Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Cato (act I, sc. 2)
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View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan,
And then deny him merit if you can.
Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone
Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Rosciad (l. 1,023)
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quotes , Source: Complaint
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The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit,
and yet does not prove that it exists.
[Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le
suppose pas aussi.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes , Source: Les Caracteres (XII)
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The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that
induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait
encore admirer un sot.]
Jean de la Bruyere
Quotes , Source: Les Caracteres (XII)
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The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit
itself.
[Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les apparences de merite
que le merite meme.]
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Quotes , Source: Maximes (166)
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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.
[Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point
d'elevation sans quelque merite.]
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Quotes , Source: Maximes (401)
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By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 5)
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does
well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Quotes , Source: Amphitruo--Prologue (LXXVIII)
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The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not
sufficient.
Francis Quarles
Quotes , Source: Emblems (bk. II, em. 1)
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For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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Surely, sir,
There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;
For, being not propped by ancestry, whose grace
Chalks successors their way, nor called upon
For high feats done to th' crown, neither allied
To eminent assistants, but spiderlike
Out of his self-drawing web, 'a gives us note,
The force of his own merit makes his way,
A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys
A place next to the king.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
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