Merely Quotes

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The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air… — Henry David Thoreau
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code… — Harper Lee
You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did — Elliot Perlman
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter. — Neale Donald Walsch
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them. — George Orwell
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
I am not gone but merely walk within you. — Nicholas Evans
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. — Paulo Coelho
It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided… — Douglas Adams
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,… — Albert Camus
And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely… — C.S. Lewis
A â€œcollectiveâ€ mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual… — Ayn Rand
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;… — Evelyn Waugh
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not… — James C. Collins
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.… — Jerry Spinelli
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and… — Hunter S. Thompson

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