Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

A woman is very sensitive and knows exactly when she is loved or not. Mere words don't work.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants; we must be co-creators.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

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

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

The frothing Trump-haters' extremism turns whatever criticism they have for the guy into mere parody.

It is right for us not to want our country transformed into a mere corridor, a giant railway station.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

I am not against the idea of looking sexy. But I don't like women being looked at as mere objects of sex.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

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