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Merely Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon…
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but…
- The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the…
- Be not merely good. Be good for something.
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
- Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely…
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or…
- Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and…
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
- Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say,…
- Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard…
- The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would…
- The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is…
- The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- 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…
- 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…
- I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
- Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
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- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted… — Lucille Ball
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also… — Mortimer Adler