Merely Quotes

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Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force. — Edgar Cayce
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure… — Czeslaw Milosz
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. — Theodore Gericault
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can. — Ian Frazier
You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither… — R. Scott Bakker
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to… — Octave Mirbeau
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of womenâ€™s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to… — Molly Haskell
Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up. — John Maynard Smith
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system… — Henry Charles Carey
The best kind of travel â€“ the kind I wanted to experience â€“ involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely… — Elisabeth Eaves
To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a… — John Hall Gladstone
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward… — Chauncey Wright
Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is… — Frances Ridley Havergal
We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions.… — John Eldred
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter… — Harry S. Broudy
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him,… — Helmut Thielicke
The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees… — Abu Nu`aym
As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of… — William Eldridge Odom
When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision… — Lilian Whiting

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