#mere

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#developing #evil #good #great #great hope

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#clocks #fathers #indians #least #merely

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. ↗

— Frank Crane

#because #corner #decide #driven #into

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#children #churches #esteem #every #gathering

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

— Charles Darwin

#heart #man #mere #ought #scientific

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#mere #opera #world

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#american #born #cabin #coincidence #cooper

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#important #man #mere #more #nation

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

— Henry Ford

#far #giving #helping #men #mere