Mere Quotes

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The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. — John W. Foster
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger… — Ethan A. Hitchcock
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more… — John Bates Clark
The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence. — John White Geary
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. — John Griffin Carlisle
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. — George Combe
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the… — Vitruvius
The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection… — John Foster
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. — Frances Wright
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who… — Melvin Calvin
They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather… — Oliver Joseph Lodge
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be… — Laurence Housman
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology. — Imre Lakatos
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was… — Samuel E. Morison
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. — Michael Servetus
Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real. — Roy H. Williams
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may… — William Kingdon Clifford
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. — George Farquhar
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it… — Socrates
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. — Logan Pearsall Smith
When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is… — Brian Baird
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good. — Jonathan Sacks
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed… — Jon Landau

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