#mere

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#achievement #day #eternity #game #good

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#ancient #brilliant #condemned #dictum #errors

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#circumstance #excellence #flatters #friend #merely

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#being #earth #greater #happiness #heaven

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#achieve #against #goodness #little #mere

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#german #language #merely #others #speak

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#healthy #love #love is #merely #sex

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. ↗

— O. Henry

#californians #east #francisco #inhabitants #merely

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced