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There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
 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? 
The more merit, the less affection
The more merit, the less affection
 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. 
 The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit 
itself.
 [Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les read more 
 The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit 
itself.
 [Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les apparences de merite 
que le merite meme.] 
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
 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.] 
 There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.
 [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa read more 
 There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.
 [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les 
fruits.]