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“The more merit, the less affection”
Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends”
François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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“Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded”
Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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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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“On their own merits modest men are dumb.”
George Colman ("The Younger") Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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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 a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.
[Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les
fruits.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (291)
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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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“The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.”
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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“We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.”
Jean Toomer Quotes |
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“Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
Alexander Pope Quotes |
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“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.”
Pietro Aretino Quotes |
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“Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.”
French Proverb Quotes |
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