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“It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.”

People Thinking Wells Difficult Battle Difficulty Mere Dear Dear Friend Approximation

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”

Men Looks Action Fighting Poor Danger He Man Ought Battle Criticism Function Stress Mere Critics Deeds Substitutes Indispensable Usefulness Subordinates Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.”

Battle Mere Cures

Author:Homer

“Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.”

Morning Feet Battle Mere Soldier Every Morning Buttons Mud Shields Superego Snooze Button

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“The people's community must not be a mere phrase, but a revolutionary achievement following from the radical carrying out of the basic life needs of the working class. A ruthless battle against corruption! A war against exploitation, freedom for the workers! The elimination of all economic-capitalist influences on national policy...Maintaining a rotten economic system has nothing to do with nationalism, which is an affirmation of the Fatherland. I can love Germany and hate capitalism. Not only can I, I must.”

“Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.”

Ifs Giving Believe Opportunity Lost Crime Battle Illusion Mere Soldier Profession Lawyer Clients

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds.”

Fronts Battle Determination Mere Inspired Deeds Warrior Motivated Spheres Dedication Zeal

Book:Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966

Source: Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966

“Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.”

Ifs Years Long Matter Together Duty Battle Dignity Mere Ugly Dull Appetite Years Together

Book:House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence

Source: House of Mirth and the Age of Innocence

“If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

Ifs World May Littles Moments Voice Christ Battle Devil Mere Soldier Rage Loyalty Flight That Moment Steady Portions Attacking Disgrace Battlefields Confessing Truth Of God

Author:Martin Luther