Merely Quotes

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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is… — Elsa Schiaparelli
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. — Friedrich Schiller
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. — Arthur Schopenhauer
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. — Chief Seattle
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that… — Will Self
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands… — Will Self
The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities… — Will Self
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his… — William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. — William Shakespeare
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. — Will Smith
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. — Thomas Sowell
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. — Leland Stanford
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many… — Stendhal
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. — Wallace Stevens
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely… — Alfred Stieglitz
If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests… — Radhanath Swami
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds… — Charles R. Swindoll
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. — Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — Rabindranath Tagore

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