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Merit Quotes
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They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. (Quote by - nPietro Aretino)
There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness. (Quote by - Conrad Black)
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them. (Quote by - nJean Toomer)
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. (Quote by - nWilliam Shakespeare)
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. (Quote by - nFrancois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)
The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. (Quote by - nJean de la Bruyere)
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. (Quote by - Lord Acton)
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster. (Quote by - J. Christopher Herold)
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains. (Quote by - nSamuel Taylor Coleridge)
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.(Quote by - nJean de la Bruyere)
On their own merits modest men are dumb. (Quote by - nGeorge Colman)
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. (Quote by - nFrançois Duc de La Rochefoucauld)