Merit

(92 votes)   Here is a field open for talent; and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.

Claudius
10 BC-AD 54, Roman Emperor

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(161 votes)   Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(133 votes)   'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(120 votes)   Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
1754-1838, French Statesman

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(96 votes)   We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Doug Horton

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(91 votes)   What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Lord Palmerston
1784-1865, British Politician, Prime Minister

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(86 votes)   An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Proverbs

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