Merit - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27400<![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27401<![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402<![CDATA[We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27395<![CDATA[Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27396<![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397<![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399<![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389<![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27390<![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391<![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392<![CDATA[Surely, sir, There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends; For, being not propped by ancestry, whose ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27393<![CDATA[The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27394<![CDATA[The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27384<![CDATA[The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27385<![CDATA[The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les apparences de ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27386<![CDATA[There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27387<![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388<![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27381<![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits, Or any ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27382<![CDATA[On their own merits modest men are dumb. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27383<![CDATA[Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27380<![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376<![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27377<![CDATA[He merits no thanks who does a kindness for his own ends ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27378<![CDATA[Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27379<![CDATA[He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12296