Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a mere set of opinions to be embraced by understanding. It is the work of the heart as well… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good… — Johann Rupert Copy Share Image
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit:… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary.… — Dr. An Wang Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took… — Carl Ludwig Copy Share Image
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God’s will, whatever comes. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is,… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we… — Jessica Tandy Copy Share Image
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading. — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
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