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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt
Great
Man
Win
Overcome
Mind
Thousand
Must
Great Man
Spite
Merely
Obstacles
Make
Make Up
Boy
His
Up
Going
Who
Defeats
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Thomas Aquinas
Better
Shine
Others
Deliver
Merely
Contemplate
Contemplated
Than
Truths
Illuminate
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
History
Fluid
Written
Merely
Very
Which
Prejudice
Ink
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Thankful
Gratitude
Words
Beginning
Consist
Completion
Merely
Thankfulness
May
Shown
Acts
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Food
Man
Animal
Animals
Healthy
Live
Eats
Animal Life
He
Taking
Merely
Without
Sake
His
Meat
Therefore
Appetite
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis
Day
You
Grief
Speak
Reflection
Live
Living
Every
Thinking
Shadow
About
Only
Fact
Misery
Part
Merely
Endless
Each
Each Day
Keep
Suffer
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
Better
Trouble
Conviction
Please
Worse
Merely
Yes
Than
Avoid
Deepest
Uttered
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
Monica Johnson
God
Disappointment
Regret
Cause
Hatred
Feeling
Before
Repentance
Admission
Merely
Sin
Wishes
Remorse
Sorrow
Without
However
Were
Situated
Proactive
Difference
Different
Turning
Act
Even
Away
Things
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You
Man
Men
Ought
Destroyed
Unable
Feared
Take
Retaliate
Merely
Vengeance
Offend
Greatly
Done
Cannot
Either
Them
Injure
Injury
Utterly
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
Soul
Age
Old
Enthusiasm
Wrinkles
Skin
Living
Our
Give
Wrinkle
Merely
Nobody
Ideals
Years
Up
May
Grow
Grows
Number
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt
Great
Big
Nation
Action
Must
Great Nation
Only
Merely
Talk
Trusted
Substitute
Rhetoric
Poor
Really
Act
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Action
Alive
Hidden
Direct
Merely
Tension
Surface
Nonviolent
Engage
Who
Creators
Bring
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
Carl Jung
Life
Morning
Human Being
Old
Own
Seventy
Significance
Must
Would
Had
Merely
Longevity
Also
Years
Human
Pitiful
Being
Eighty
Cannot
Afternoon
Meaning
Human Life
Certainly
Grow
Species
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
Ellen G. White
God
Conversation
People
World
Christ
Shine
Every
Ministers
Merely
Lights
Disciple
His
Heavenly
Required
Should
Requires
Who
The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Ramana Maharshi
Moving On
Alone
Thoughts
Events
Will
Pure
Picture
Become
Remains
Clear
Merely
Invisible
Pictures
Like
Real
Move
Stop
Screen
Which
While
Moving
Appears
Consciousness
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare
Dream
Shadow
Merely
Ambitious
Very
Substance
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft
Truth
Religion
Try
Insist
Young
Consequences
Backgrounds
Would
Followers
True
Merely
Practical
Were
Quest
Artificial
Irrespective
Conformity
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
Joe Biden
Government
Change
Country
Society
Civil
Rise
Civil Society
Merely
Demand
Because
Occurs
Up
Begins
Social
Social Change
Fundamental
Acts
Conscience
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass
Experience
Path
Negative
Important
Nothing
Every
Take
Merely
Steps
Expect
Proceed
Including
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Impossible
Will
Nothing
Nothing Is Impossible
Everything
Say
Ways
Lead
Had
Merely
Excuse
Always
Often
Should
Means
Sufficient
Things
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay
Constitution
Generation
Made
Unlimited
States
Posterity
Constitution Of The United States
Merely
Undefined
Perpetual
Existed
Endless
Then
United
United States
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'
Phillips Brooks
Man
Woman
Christ
Every
Say
Easter
Immortal
Rise
Risen
Shall
Resurrection
Count
Catch
Merely
Him
Himself
Revelation
His
Jesus
Every Man
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
People
Other
Side
Merely
Like
Liking
Getting
Them
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
Claude Monet
You
Try
Before
Whatever
Own
Field
Think
Tree
Exact
Objects
Scene
Gives
Color
Shape
Merely
Until
House
Looks
Pink
Yellow
Impression
Square
Forget
Blue
Just
Little
Your
Paint
Streak
Here
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin
Great
Relationship
Man
First
Understanding
Doubt
Humility
Hesitation
Say
Great Man
He
Merely
Powers
Opinion
Test
His
Truly
Mean
Speaking
The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson
Inferiority
Others
Evidence
Possess
Gifts
Superiority
Moreover
Merely
Different
Which
Race
Races
Certain
Each
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