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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
Happiness
Immanuel Kant

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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Peace
King Jr. Martin Luther

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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Writers and Writing
Jean De La Bruyere

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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.
Danger
F. L. Lucan

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Misers and Misery
Karl Marx

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A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.
Economy and Economics
Andrew William Mellon

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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Husbands
H. L. Mencken

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
Love
H. L. Mencken

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
Mistakes
Paul J. Meyer

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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Creation
Christopher Morley

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Knowledge
Hector Hugh Munro

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Prejudice
Edward R. Murrow

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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
Vulgarity
William Nazlitt

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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
Variety
Jean Paul

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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Approval
Norman Vincent Peale

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Without money honor is merely a disease.
Honor
Jean Racine

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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety
Jean Paul Richter

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Effort
Theodore Roosevelt

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Love
Helen Rowland

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Heroes and Heroism
May Sarton

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.
Imagination
Saying

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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
Tears
Seneca

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Ambition
William Shakespeare

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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Acquaintance
Logan Pearsall Smith

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun