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Showing posts with label merit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label merit. Show all posts

Friday, November 30, 2018

Post #2710

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
—Alexander Pope

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Thursday, October 02, 2014

Post #1654

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson


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Friday, April 04, 2014

Post #1515

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
—Lord Halifax

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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