Meritorious Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is…
— Abraham Lincoln
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On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the…
— Cilla Black
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Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to…
— Muhammad
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There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
— Alexander Pope
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When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.
— Louis de Montfort
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.
— Guru Nanak
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Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those…
— Vincent de Paul
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Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
— Derek Bok
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The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell…
— Scott O'Dell
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People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious…
— Lysander Spooner
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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when…
— W. Somerset Maugham
Who Wrote These Meritorious Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Meritorious Quotes as follows: