You May Also Like / View all maxioms
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.
By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
By merit raised
To that bad eminence.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
read more
It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.
Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
read more
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.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
