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Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

Behavior Character Large Merely
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Every Expect Experience Important
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

Afterlife Contradiction Here Hoped
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

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

Begun Mind Possibility Crossing
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America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

America Big Big Guy Class
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Children Clocks Fathers Indians
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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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.

Case Cases Considered Few
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Accept Apparently Both Cambridge
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Against Barriers Built Find
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Ecstasy Enough Find Joy
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

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

God Life Presence Hearts
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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.

Alone Baggage Chatter Dust
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Because Character Concerned Merely
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Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
Jesus Speak True
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Poet Merely Proves Exists
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Man will not merely endure; he will prevail

Man Merely Endure Prevail
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

Curl Mere Scatter Smoke
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Wealth Nation Spirit Fiber
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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.

Doctrine Creed Friend Christ
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Across Better Books Conversation
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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.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Power Aloud Positively Components
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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Another Arsenal Atom Atom Bomb
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People can die of mere imagination.
Die Imagination Mere People
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Humans Matches Me Mere
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To write well and to speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Live Vanity Speak Well
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Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

Manners Primary Colors Rules
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A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Praise Little Pursue Justice
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The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Money Commodity Intrinsically Best
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Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Consideration Right Feelings Public
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Absence Benevolence Confidence Disposition
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It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Defend Extend Idea Lose
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Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
Marriage Process Prolonging Life
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Those Enslaved Sects Merely
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Acts Ages Being Entrance
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ambitious Dream Merely Shadow
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Thing Chance Seem Merest
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Merely Enemy Rise Reconciled
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Arisen Blunders Books Dancing
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

Crown Merely Hat Rain
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Aphorism Blood Cold Dull
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It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

Fear Dependent Young Child
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