“ Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. - Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody. ”
- Jules Renard- Copy
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“ For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. ”
- John Wilmot- Copy
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“ Like men condemned to thunderbolts, Who, ere the blow, become mere dolts. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. ”
- Johnny Depp- Copy
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“ They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ”
- Jean Paul- Copy
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“ It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
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“ One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. - The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Variety is what constitutes organization; uniformity is mere mechanism. ”
- Benjamin Constant- Copy
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“ Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ”
- Charles Mingus- Copy
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“ They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer not an easy answer but simple. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. ”
- Lyall Watson- Copy
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“ It's so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple. ”
- Gururaj Ananda Yogi- Copy
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“ If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. ”
- Emerson Pugh- Copy
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“ Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want. ”
- Sue Bender- Copy
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“ An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. ”
- Donald O. Hebb- Copy
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