Mere Quotes

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it… — Giacomo Casanova
Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never… — Giacomo Casanova
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
People can die of mere imagination. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free. — Cesar Chavez
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Lord Chesterfield
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss,… — William Kingdon Clifford
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth… — Henri Frederic Amiel
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. — John D. Rockefeller
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the effect… — Carl von Clausewitz
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The… — Emile Durkheim

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