Common sense isn't.
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Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!" |
~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 37 Philip. ~ |
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She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world. |
~ Adlai Stevenson (19001965), U.S. Democratic politician. quoted in New York Times (Nov. 8, 1962). Comment on learning of Eleanor Roosevelts death. Stevenson was quoting the motto of the Christopher Society, It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness. According to Brewers Quotations, ed. Nigel Rees (1994), this in turn is a Chinese proverb. ~ |
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. |
~ Lord Byron, Beppo. Stanza 45. ~ |
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Sky-what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, Ray on ray split the shroud: Splendid, a star! |
~ Robert Browning, The two Poets of Croisic. ~ |
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. |
~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. Line 413. ~ |
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Mans insanity is heavens sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God. |
~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 93, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
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It was an amiable weakness. |
~ Richard Sheridan, School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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