138 Quotations with Merit.
- 21. Samuel Johnson: A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: ...
- 22. 0. Hallesby: A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that ...
- 23. H. L. Mencken: A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and aut ...
- 24. Thomas Fuller: A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
- 25. Author Unknown: Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other ...
- 26. Joseph Joubert: Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- 27. Walter Savage Landor: An ingenuous, mind feels in unmerited praise, the bitterest reproof.
- 28. Friedrich Nietzsche: Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the a ...
- 29. Alexander Pope: Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit ...
- 30. Samuel Butler: Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to expres ...
- 31. George Bernard Shaw: Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distin ...
- 32. Sir Thomas Browne: But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the me ...
- 33. Francis Bacon: Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded f ...
- 34. Alexander Pope: Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- 35. William Blake: Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destr ...
- 36. Charles Caleb Colton: Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit; posterity will reg ...
- 37. Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the ...
- 38. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort: Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
- 39. Thomas Carlyle: Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of suc ...
- 40. Alexander Pope: Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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