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    If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

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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.]

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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
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It sounds like stories from the land of spirits,
If any man obtain that which he merits,
Or any merit that which he obtains.

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Found in: Merit Quotes,
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Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

Merit is much more cheaply acknowledged than rewarded

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Merit Quotes,
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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.
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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation
without some merit.
[Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point
d'elevation sans quelque merite.]

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Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.

Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Merit Quotes,
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On their own merits modest men are dumb.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

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View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan,
And then deny him merit if you can.
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View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan,
And then deny him merit if you can.
Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone
Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Merit Quotes,
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The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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