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• Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Poetry, Mechanic

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 654 (on Pope)

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• The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kindness, Real, Believe

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• True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Giving, Community, Religion

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• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Respect, Mean, Men

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Science, Achievement, Experience

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• Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

  Alan Sokal

  Believe, Science, Law

  Alan D. Sokal (2008). “Beyond the hoax: science, philosophy and culture”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Believe, Self

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

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• What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Anniversary, Hilarious

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Work, Play, Literature

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• Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Unique, Two

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Broken Heart, Heartache, Soul

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• The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Voice, Acting, Noise

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• It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

  Vin Scully

  Stars, Carpe Diem, Men

  Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.

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• Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

  Nixon Waterman

  Worry, Life Is, Trouble

  Nixon Waterman (2017). “Boy Wanted”, p.64, Litres

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• History without politics descends to mere Literature.

  John Robert Seeley

  History, Literature

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• Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

  John Robert Seeley

  Sight, History, Literature

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”

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• Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Adversity, Suffering, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Struggle, Overcoming

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.207, Penguin

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• Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

  Herman Melville

  Identity, Gone, Free Will

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.239

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• The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Independent, Thinking, Desire

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Law

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.79, eKitap Projesi

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