Merely Quotes

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Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no. — E E Cummings
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more… — St. Vincent
Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for… — Jascha Heifetz
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to… — Unknown Author
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue.… — Stephen Jay Gould
The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as… — Nikola Tesla
But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but… — Nikola Tesla
Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach… — Nikola Tesla
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress… — Henry Ford
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough… — Louis Pasteur
I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to Godâ€™s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him.Â But know this: God… — Francis Chan
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether… — Pope John XXIII
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time,… — Pope Pius X
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental… — Edward Sapir
Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon? — Stephen Covey
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then… — Peter Singer
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its… — George Gershwin
The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult. — Yvon Chouinard
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it… — Frank Moore Colby

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