Merely Quotes

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Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the… — Charles de Lint
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think… — John F. Kennedy
Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we… — Jean de la Bruyere
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

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