#merit

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. ↗

— Sallust

#defend #friends #good #good deeds #honesty

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. ↗

— Sallust

#concealment #descendants #distinguished #either #forbid

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

— William Shakespeare

#false #got #idle #imposition #lost

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#america #barrier #elevation #every #exists

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#great power #himself #his #interest #ivy

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. ↗

— John Sweeney

#based #cup #get #merits #people

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#insignificant #medicine #merit #nothing

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#inconsiderable #master #masters #merit #methods

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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