Mere Quotes

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To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in… — Laura Riding
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of… — Henry David Thoreau
Lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. — Robin Sharma
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. — C.S. Lewis
It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions. — Unknown Author
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention,… — Mary McCarthy
One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To… — Swami Vivekananda
Disease is the misery of our belief, happiness is the health of our wisdom, so that man's happiness or misery depends on himself. Now, as… — Phineas Quimby
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized… — Ardant du Picq
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and… — Boris Johnson
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform. — Samuel Smiles
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing… — Joseph Butler
Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I… — Jean-Francois Millet
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the… — John Gresham Machen
It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork… — H. L. Mencken
The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi
We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any… — Mahatma Gandhi
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it… — Hermann Hesse

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