Quotations on Merit | Quotations: 12 | Pages: 2
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by John Milton
(December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) |
By merit raised To that bad eminence. |
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by Alexander Pope
(May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744) |
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. |
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by Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) |
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
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 s ... |
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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) |
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. |
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by Proverb
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
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 t ... |
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by Jean de La Bruyère
(August 16, 1645 - May 10, 1696) |
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. |
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by Jean de La Bruyère
(August 16, 1645 - May 10, 1696) |
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. |
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by Francis Quarles
(1592 - September 8, 1644) |
The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. |
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