138 Quotations with Merit.
- 41. Charles II: For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

- 42. Plutarch: Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

- 43. R. P. C. Hanson: Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, d ...

- 44. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles ...

- 45. Samuel Johnson: He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but He ...

- 46. Mark Twain: Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would ...

- 47. Lord Byron: Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernmen ...

- 48. Claudius: Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and ...

- 49. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

- 50. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield: Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscrimina ...

- 51. Homer: How vain, without the merit, is the name.

- 52. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: I don't say 'tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a ...

- 53. Ruth Benedict: If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which ...

- 54. The Holy Bible: If you love only those who love you ... if you help only those who help you ...w ...

- 55. John Christian Bovee: In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their ...

- 56. Jonathan Swift: In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors ...

- 57. Agnes Repplier: In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable ...

- 58. Bhagavad Gita: It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of ...

- 59. Francesco Petrarch: It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune be ...

- 60. Horace: It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of ...

Merit Quotes by Power Quotations
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