#merely

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#brother #lined #men #merely #only

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#merely #politics #really #think #tools

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#alone #capacity #employee #employer #his

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#best #best way #delight #drop #exciting

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing

A melody is not merely something you can hum. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#melody #merely #something #you

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction. ↗

— Jean Dubuffet

#completely #eventual #expect #extinction #goodbye

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#enemy #fallen #may #merely #reconciled

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#heaven #heir #holiness #holy #made