Mere Quotes

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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — Alan Watts
The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply… — Derek R. Audette
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of… — Isaac Newton
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what… — Jacob Bronowski
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,… — Alexander Pope
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which… — Henry Ward Beecher
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints… — James Russell Lowell
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul… — Mark Twain
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not… — Aristotle
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself. — William Blake
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? — Samuel Johnson
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know… — Thomas Carlyle

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