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- Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope
- I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase… — Gertrude the Great
- True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them. — Augustus William Hare
- We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits… — Nicolas Malebranche
- [M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to… — Moderata Fonte
- We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits. — Rex Stout
- Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge