Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought but it will always be known.
More Quotes from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield:
Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Dispatch is the soul of business.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Be your character what it will, it will be known And nobody will take it upon your word.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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