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“The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.”

Has Beens Lasts Given Picks Fellows Mere Species Critics Sentences Variety Titles Volume Catchers Ultras

Book:Table-talk: Or, Original Essays

Source: Table-talk: Or, Original Essays

“Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.”

Men Giving Feels Heart Opinion Fine Circumstances Clothes Ears Fellows Mere Sympathy Fellow Man Pulse True Knowledge

Book:Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.”

God Simple Expression Fellows Mere Dear Superstitions Vulgar

Book:The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure

Source: The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure

“The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.”

Men Citizens Hatred Fellows Mere Lawyer Innocent Titles Sufficient

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.”

“These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Should Heart Feelings Would Be Speak Dog Fellows Blind Longing Mere Glorious Our Thoughts

Author:Charles Kingsley

“I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.”

World Believe Humans Care I Believe Vision Path Security Fellows Foundation Mere Strive Liberation

Author:Sam Branson

“Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!”

World Littles Persons Hands Adventure Fine Benefits Fellows Luck Mere Wide About Yourself Sole Prophecy

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.”

“Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No.”

World Wells Wish This World Pages Devil Gains Fellows Tired Mere Educational Dull Scoundrels Jargon

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”

Ifs Men Joy Lying Dark Effort Moral Teach Destiny Creative Cost Achievement Fellows Mad Mere Forgotten Profit Possession Ministers Thrill Fellow Man Stimulation Dark Days

Book:Looking Forward

Source: Looking Forward

“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”

Hands Chance Fame Fellows Mere Pigs Tails

Author:Davy Crockett