Common sense isn't.
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| The merit of the founders of our Republics lies in the more accurate views and the practical applications of the doctrines [of self-government]. The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective. |
| ~ Letter to N. P. Trist, February--, 1830 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 58) ~ |
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| [Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. |
| ~ George Berkeley, Siris. Par. 217. ~ |
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| The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, May 1, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 33, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984). ~ |
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| For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, it is one of the noblest qualities of humanity. There is something sociable about it, too. Think of those sensible & sociable millions of good fellows all taking a good long friendly snooze together, under the sod—no quarrels, no imaginary grievances, no envies, heart-burnings, & thinking how much better that other chap is off—none of this: but all equally free-&-easy, they sleep away & reel off their nine knots an hour, in perfect amity. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Letter, May 25, 1862, to his brother, Thomas Melville. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 97, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). ~ |
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| No, I can never regret having obtained a sight of your whole heart! |
| ~ -Act. V. Scene XII. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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