Merely Quotes

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I donâ€™t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more… — Anais Nin
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about… — Wendell Berry
And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain… — Caroline B. Cooney
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. — Oscar Wilde
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naÃ¯ve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would… — Charlotte Bronte
We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic… — Robin Parrish
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental… — Carl Jung
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it… — Carl Jung
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from… — Mark Levin
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but… — Ezra Pound
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song â€“ if you… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will… — Robert Frost
Love is merely a madness. — William Shakespeare
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. — Charlotte Bronte
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things â€” not merely industrious,… — John Ruskin
We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by… — Pittacus Lore
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted… — George Orwell

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