Merit Quotes
745 quotes by 547 authors
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of…
— Charles Babbage
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly,…
— Bryan Adams
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio…
— Kate Adie
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is…
— Harold Brodkey
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If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long…
— James Buchan
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
— Lord Byron
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit…
— John Calvin
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It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is…
— Donald Cargill
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated…
— Richard Carmona
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
— Coco Chanel
Who Wrote These Merit Quotes
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