Merely Quotes

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Love is merely madness... — William Shakespeare
I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but… — John Ruskin
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.… — Buddha
Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted… — Hermann Hesse
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them — David Hume
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia. — H. L. Mencken
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can… — Sri Sathya Sai Baba
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing — Maurice Maeterlinck
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will never even stop to learn — Marcus Aurelius
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams II
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an… — Henry Louis Mencken
Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. — Walter Lippmann
Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues. — William Temple Sr
It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm… — Albert Schweitzer
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind,… — Spencer Tracy
Creativity not committed to public purpose is merely therapy or ego satisfaction. — Ernest A Jones

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