Merit Quote by Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Merit
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
They may bring their fattest cattle and richest fruits to the fair, but they are all eclipsed by the show of men. These are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” — Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect… — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to… — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“433.—The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae."… — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“357.—Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all and are not even hurt.” — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. — François Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.” — Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had the right… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no discussion inside this boardroom to say we've got to get into this or that. We look at every growth opportunity on… — James Packer Copy Share Image
I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
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