Common sense isn't.
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| Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name. |
| ~ Robert Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night. ~ |
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| As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,-"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus. Book iii. Chap. iii. ~ |
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| Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii. ~ |
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| And to meet whom did Franklin D Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama. |
| ~ Hosting Carnegie Hall tribute to Myrna Loy, NY Times 16 Jan 85 ~ |
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| Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man? |
| ~ Epictetus, Discourses. Chap. xxi. ~ |
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| The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Italian Itinerant. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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