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True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. Ellen G. White
Love True Love Alone Wise Love Is Strong Passion Calm On The Contrary Abide Impetuous Mere True Beyond Attracted Qualities Looks Devotion Real Discriminating Contrary Fiery Deep Element
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Charles Spurgeon
Spiritual Prayer Earth Neither Vocal Mental Mere True Performance Exercise Nor Than Heaven Transaction Far Creator Deeper
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. Erma Bombeck
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Socrates
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie. Pamela Meyer
Lie Power Believe Think Lying Else About Someone Emerges Mere Whatsoever Act Agree Cooperative Utterance
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. Mahatma Gandhi
Surrender Give Give And Take Compromise Take Mere Any Based Fundamentals
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle
Life Survival Value Of Life Value Power Awareness Rather Mere Contemplation Ultimate Than Depends
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
Strong Country Draw No Country Constitute Attachment Merchants Mere Spot Does Which Gains Stand
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wise Man Conversation Wise Man Learning Better Single Books Table Ten Ten Years Mere Study Years Than Across
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Saint Augustine
Soul Other Humility Virtue Virtues Except Mere Does Exist Any Cannot Which Appearance Hence Foundation
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
Experience Mere Blind Without Intellectual Theory Play
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. John Muir
Alone Silence Travel Heart Dust Other Wilderness Only Chatter Mere Baggage Hotels Without Truly Get Going
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. Rabindranath Tagore
Love Truth Heart Love Is Reality Sentiment Creation Lies Only Mere Ultimate
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. Andrew Jackson
Constitution Rights Worth Judiciary Nothing Virtuous Independent Secured Citizens Except Bubble Mere Them Guaranteed
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have. Dwight L. Moody
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Lao Tzu
Truth Expediency Lost Beginning Virtue Benevolence Shadow Mere Conduct Expedience Disorder Appears Right Right Conduct
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. Oswald Chambers
Faith Christ Earth Shadow Mere Dearest Dearest Friend Friend Compared Jesus Jesus Christ
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' Edgar Allan Poe
Art Nature Man Soul Imitation Define Perceive Through Sacred Mere Veil Term Name Call However Were Very Accurate Artist Senses Reproduction Should
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. William J. H. Boetcker
Man Will Men Backbone Thousand One-Man More Individual Mere Than Activity
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. Edgar Allan Poe
Few Think Considered Case Cases Proper Mere Merit Test Which Should Popularity
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it. P. T. Barnum
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Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. Ivan Pavlov
Try Become Penetrate Recorder Mystery Facts Mere Origin
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. J. Donald Walters
Happiness Friendship Understanding Own Way More Mere True Principles Than Precious Getting Situations Being Where Stake Your Things
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life. Lincoln Steffens
Life Best Man Corruption Blame Honest Man Crook Live Living Our Worst System Citizens About More Magnificence Magnificent Individual Mere Individuals Feel Longer Up Modern Rewards Modern Life Which Us Much Even Grown Grown-Up Honest
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