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98 quotesMind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Mind
Charles Dickens
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Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Mind
Charles Dickens
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Home
Norman Douglas
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A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Business
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Reality
Albert Einstein
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
Justice
Epicurus
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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
Poetry and Poets
George Farquhar
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Optimism
William Faulkner
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Leaders and Leadership
Henry Ford
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Change
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Opposition
Gene Fowler
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom
Felix Frankfurter
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Opposition
Sigmund Freud
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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Freedom
David Lloyd George
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Heroes and Heroism
Baltasar Gracian
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Goodness
Georg Hegel
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Propaganda
Eric Hoffer
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.
Growth
Hubbell
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Debate
Hubert H. Humphrey
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If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
William James
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The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
Individuality
Japanese Proverb
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson
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Virtue is too often merely local.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.
Fights and Fighting
Master Kahn
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun