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There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the… — Sebastian Barry
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have… — Paulo Coelho
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The world is mere change, and this life, opinion. — Marcus Aurelius
The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains… — Peter Matthiessen
I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of… — Mikhail Lermontov
I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to… — David Levithan
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can… — C.S. Lewis
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool… — Laini Taylor
A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and… — Jessica Mitford
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not… — Pat Conroy
She reached up and curled her fingers into mine. “He should take you to dinner.” To say that the mere thought horrified me would have… — Darynda Jones
Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do… — Robert Jordan
You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind… — C.S. Lewis
Harry felt winded, as though he had just walked into something heavy. He had last seen those cool gray eyes through slits in a Death… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in… — C.S. Lewis
Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better… — Henry Rollins
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis — C.S. Lewis
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot… — E. O. Wilson
She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she… — Virginia Woolf
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited… — Karen Armstrong
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others… — Nelson Mandela
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing. — Sonia Sotomayor

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