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en It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
  Francesco Petrarch

en The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. It sounds like stories from the land of spirits - If any may obtain that which he merits - or any merit that which he obtains
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

en The moderation of those who are happy arises from the calm which good fortune bestows upon their temper.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en One who obtains the Sublime Essence of the Lord is satisfied and fulfilled. One who obtains this Flavor of the Lord does not waver. One who has this destiny written on his forehead obtains the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

en Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
  Seneca

en I had the blessing or curse to be born into an activist family. My mom and dad were into the protests way before I was born. And once I was born, they raised me in that activist environment.

en His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage
  Henry Fielding

en Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Hederlig, adj.: Drabbad av ett hinder i sin räckvidd. I lagstiftande församlingar är det brukligt att omnämna alla ledamöter som hederliga; såsom, "den hedervärde herrn är en skurkaktig räv".
en Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."
  Ambrose Bierce

en He is called the Most Perfect of the Perfect. He sits upon His Perfect Throne. He looks so Beautiful in His Perfect Place. He fulfills the hopes of the hopeless. O Nanak, if one obtains the Perfect Lord, how can his virtues decrease?

en Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

en We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his imp
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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