Birth bestows less of honour than it demands; and to boast of ancestry is but to praise the merit of others.
Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.
Fred Hoyle
Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast,
And those who paint them truest praise them most.Joseph Addison
To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
Be honour, praise, and glory given
By all on earth, and all in heaven.Isaac Watts
If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.
Keshub Chunder Sen
Marguenat de Courcelles, Anne-Therese de, marquise de Lambert
March, James G.
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