Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts."
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Mere
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Muhammad Iqbal
Poet, Philosopher
"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."
Sappho
Poet
"Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"Strength without agility is a mere mass."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness."
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"I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
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"No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal."
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"She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt"
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"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them."
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"Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities."
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"Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose."
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"Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all."
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"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all."
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"Honor, without money, is a mere malady."
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"This item is a mere fleabite in the ocean of our expenditure."
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"I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness."
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"But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer."
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"You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream"
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"Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking."
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"We are mere bundles of habits."
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"We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude."
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"Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness."
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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I."
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"How good is life, the mere living!"
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