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Merit Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.
- Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
- Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts,…
- Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
- Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
- Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?
- Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
- Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
- Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
- Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore, full well they merit all they feel, and more
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