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- 99◆ 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 Churchill98◆ The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.
- Jean De La Bruyere98◆ The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself.
- 98◆ There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.
- 98◆ We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.
- Plautus98◆ He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld98◆ 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 Gilbert98◆ A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
- Fran?ois De La Rochefoucauld98◆ Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
- Samuel Johnson98◆ The more merit, the less affection
- Baltasar Gracian98◆ Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
- John Zimmerman98◆ The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.
- Francis Quarles98◆ On their own merits modest men are dumb.
- George Colman98◆ Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- Paul Eldridge98
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