Mere Quotes

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Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. — C.S. Lewis
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. — Oscar Wilde
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for… — John Piper
The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality… — Lisa Kleypas
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles… — Ellis Peters
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. — John Green
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their… — Rabindranath Tagore
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever… — Terry Pratchett
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death. — Chuck Palahniuk
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses… — Edgar Allan Poe
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform… — Albert Camus
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time… — John Muir
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock… — Gene Roddenberry

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