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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
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Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.
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