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The song being great in its own wealth, why should it wait upon the words? Rather does it begin where mere words fail. Its power lies in the region of the inexpressible; it tells us what the words cannot. Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour. Joseph Ratzinger
E. M. Forster quote: "A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned."
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. E. M. Forster
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. Felix Frankfurter
His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered or even witnessed all the things that followed her death. Including all this now. But that would be like wishing her dead. Merely dead. Graham Swift
What seems strained-a mere triumph of preverse ingenuity-to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors would often wonder how how we could possibly miss what we wonder how they could have been silly-clever enough to find. And between different ages there is no impartial judge on earth, for no one stands outside the historical proscess; and of course no one is so completely enslaved to it as those who take are own age to be, not one more period, but a final and... C. S. Lewis
Herman Hesse quote: "I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a..."
I don't know whether my life has been useless and merely a misunderstanding, or whether it has a meaning. Herman Hesse
people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mistakes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oscar Wilde quote: "It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever..."
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. Oscar Wilde
It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual -- and after all what is an individual?" With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. "We can make a new one with the greatest ease -- As many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the lie of a mere individual; it... Aldous Huxley
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. Nikos Kazantzakis
George Orwell quote: "Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning..."
Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought. George Orwell
It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, ---a factor in a problem. - Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue--where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk--otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it. Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in..."
we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. Friedrich Nietzsche

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