Common sense isn't.
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| To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson’s Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (c. 1889), ch. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). ~ |
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| The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
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| This is why so many artists, bending under the burden, take refuge in the ivory tower or, conversely, in the social church. But as for me, I see in both choices a like act of resignation. We must simultaneously serve suffering and beauty. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, The Artist And His Time, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power Which could evade, if unforgiven, The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Mazeppa. Stanza 10. ~ |
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| Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Hart-leap Well. Part ii. ~ |
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| When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; but God is within, and your genius is within,-and what need have they of light to see what you are doing? |
| ~ Epictetus, Discourses. Chap. xiv. ~ |
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| Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage." |
| ~ Plutarch, The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. 14. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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