138 Quotations with Merit.
- 1. W. S. Gilbert: If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You m ...

- 2. Alexander Pope: Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all ...

- 3. Paul Eldridge: Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion ent ...

- 4. James Goldsmith: Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but w ...

- 5. Author Unknown: Acknowledgment - If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other p ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of ...

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a h ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble c ...

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: MACROBIAN, n. One forgotten of the gods and living to a great age. History is ab ...

- 10. The Talmud: Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entir ...

- 11. Heloise: Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of ...

- 12. William Shakespeare: To be, or not to be: that is the question:
...

- 13. Stephen Jay Gould: In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be pe ...

- 14. Dan Barker: Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, the ...

- 15. Alexander Pope: Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
...

- 16. Richard Cecil: We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use th ...

- 17. John Fiske: The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out ...

- 18. Christian Nevell Bovee: In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to ...

- 19. Unknown: Strategy: A long-range plan whose merit cannot be evaluated until sometime after ...

- 20. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art

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