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“I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.”

Thinking Should Littles Real Age Used Decision Serious Duty Trade Notion Profession Ministers Merit Delightful Booksellers

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.”

Thinking Men God Acceptance Duty Reflection Thee Merit Crowns God's Love

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.”

Men Writing Believe Would Be Cases Novel Greater Duty Ten Leaving Nine Merit Unwritten

Book:Varia

Source: Varia

“Whoever would entitle himself after death through the merits of his Redeemer, to the noblest of rewards, let him serve God throughout life in this most excellent of all duties, doing good to our brethren. Whoever is sensible of his offences, let him take this way especially of evidencing his repentance.”

Way Duty Charity Rewards Excellent Merit Repentance Sensible Serving God Doing Good After Death Brethren Offence Redeemer

Author:Thomas Secker

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

Thinking Men Made Ends Whole Order Human Nature Duty Ought Dignity Merit Thoughtful

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.”

Men Character Care Evil Duty Army Take Care Every Man Reform Merit Good And Evil Remedy Deficiency Valiant

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.”

Should Mistake Compassion Strange Duty Intellectual Paid Charity Calm Debt Fulfillment Merit Severe

Book:The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

“O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of a child and its mother. How is it that I without any merit have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? Oh, how gladly will I do so. Though the duty should be even more insignificant and despised, neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor will distress me for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight.”

Should Children Littles Care Mother Certain Rocks Duty Creatures Labor Sight Worthy Merit Heat Distinction Serving Distress Insignificant Despised Babe Frost Diapers Drudgery Not Worthy

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“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 their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.”

Made Duty Exercise Paid Merit Pockets Officers Salary Appointments

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”

Science Dangerous Duty Future Accounts Merit

Book:Science and the Modern World

Source: Science and the Modern World