Common sense isn't.
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| The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 490. ~ |
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| No sleep. The sultriness pervades the air And binds the brain—a dense oppression, such As tawny tigers feel in matted shades, Vexing their blood and making apt for ravage. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The House-Top (l. 1–4). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. ix. ~ |
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| Of whom and of what indeed can I say: "I know that!" This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning, Absurd Walls, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave. ~ |
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| Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them. |
| ~ Epictetus, In what Manner we ought to bear Sickness. Book iii. Chap. x. ~ |
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| I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Each and All. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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