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Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
The more merit, the less affection
The more merit, the less affection
He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends
He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends
By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
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Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.
Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely
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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 spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin?
