MERIT

Related Subjects: Deserving, Excellence, Honesty, Qualities, Worth

1. Merit is worthier than fame.—BACON
   

2. Merit and good-breeding will make their way everywhere.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
   

3. The little merit man can plead
   In doing well, dependeth still
   Upon his power of doing ill.—CHARLES CHURCHILL, The Ghost
   

4. No farther seek his merits to disclose.
   Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,
   (There they alike in trembling hope repose)
   The bosom of his Father and his God.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
   

5. Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Miscellanies
   

6. What merit to be dropped on fortune's hill?
   The honour is to mount it!—J. S. KNOWLES, The Hunchback
   

7. The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

8. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.—POPE, The Rape of the Lock
   

9. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what hole in hell were hot enough for him?—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

10. The force of his own merit makes his way.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII