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    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.

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The more merit, the less affection

The more merit, the less affection

by Baltasar Gracian Found in: Merit Quotes,
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Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Merit Quotes,
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The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that
induces us to admire a fool.
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The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that
induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait
encore admirer un sot.]

by Jean De La Bruyere Found in: Merit Quotes,
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By merit raised
To that bad eminence.

By merit raised
To that bad eminence.

by John Milton Found in: Merit Quotes,
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Found in: Merit Quotes,
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does
well will always have patrons enough.
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does
well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.
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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.
[Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point
d'elevation sans quelque merite.]

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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

by Edward F. Halifax Found in: Merit Quotes,
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View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan,
And then deny him merit if you can.
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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.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Merit Quotes,
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