"The sufficiency of merit is to know that……" — Francis Quarles

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• What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the… — Teresa of Avila
• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,… — Teresa of Avila
• Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right… — Charles Babbage
• I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how… — Bryan Adams
• Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
• I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other… — Mikhail Bakunin
• The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human… — Charles Baudelaire
• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
• It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit… — Kate Adie
• In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. — Christian Nestell Bovee
• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it… — Christian Nestell Bovee
• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see… — Harold Brodkey

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