“ I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ The summer dawn's reflected hueTo purple changed Loch Katrine blue,Mildly and soft the western breezeJust kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,Trembled but dimpled not for joy. ”
- Walter Scott- Copy
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“ There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing… … ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. ”
- Schiller- Copy
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“ There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living… a way in which life itself is sheer knowing. ”
- Laurens Van der Post- Copy
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“ I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
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“ Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life. ”
- M. R. Vincent- Copy
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“ As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species. ”
- Dalai Lama- Copy
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“ Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
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“ Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… ”
- W. B. Yeats- Copy
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“ Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, — a mere heart of stone. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
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“ Any religion…is for ever in danger of putrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
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“ A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back — it is already so far. ”
- Alice Meynell- Copy
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“ A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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