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Mere Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read…
- The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and…
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most…
- As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
More Mere Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac
- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
- Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that… — Tyra Banks
- Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere… — Mario Batali
- Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere… — Evan Bayh
- Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
- Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the… — Annie Besant
- No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker