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Mere Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
- Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on…
- Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know…
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- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
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- 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