Mere
A pool or lake.
A boundary.
To divide, limit, or bound.
A mare.
Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
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Mere Quotations
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mahatma Gandhi
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mahatma Gandhi
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
Mere Translations
mere in Dutch is louter, enkel, bloot
mere in Portuguese is mero
mere in Swedish is idel, ren, blott och bar
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