Merely Quotes

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When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves. — Jean de la Bruyere
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. — Madame de Stael
how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You? — E E Cummings
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior… — George Will
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. — Alan Coren
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay… — Emma Goldman
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven… — Emma Goldman
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,… — Karl Marx
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. — Blaise Pascal
Professors of theory merely hold post-mortems. — Stephen Leacock
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. — Gene Fowler
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in… — Janet Frame
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. — Frederick The Great
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. — Mahatma Gandhi
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with… — Giuseppe Garibaldi
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel… — Andre Gide
Age merely shows what children we remain. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if… — Emma Goldman
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. — Stephen Jay Gould
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. — Baltasar Gracian

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