Common sense isn't.
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| And sweeten'd every musk-rose of the dale. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 496. ~ |
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| We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, January 27, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Success is man's god. |
| ~ Aeschylus, Choephor, 59. ~ |
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| Duty: We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Baccalaureate address as President of Princeton University, June 9, 1907. ~ |
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| Chapter 6 : steal no land and eat from your own field 01 Do not move the markers on the borders of fields. 02 Nor shift the position of the measuring-cord. 03 Do not be greedy for a cubit of land. 04 Nor encroach on the boundaries of a widow. 05 The trodden furrow worn down by time, 06 he who disguises it in the fields, 07 when he has snared (it) by false oaths, 08 he will be caught by the might of the Moon. 09 Recognize him who does this on earth! 10 He is an oppressor of the weak, 11 a foe working to destroy your body. 12 The taking of life is in his eye, 13 his house is an enemy to the town, 14 his barns wiIl be destroyed, 15 his wealth wiIl be seized from his children's hands, (and) 16 his possessions wiIl be given to another. 17 Beware of destroying the borders of fields, 18 lest a terror carry You away. 19 One pleases god with the might of the Lord, 20 when one discerns the borders of fields. 21 Desire your being to be sound. 22 Beware of the Lord of All! 23 Do not erase another's furrow, 24 it profits You to keep it sound. 25 Plow your fields and You will find what You need, 26 You will receive bread from your own threshing-floor. 27 Better is a bushel given You by the god, 28 than five thousand through wrongdoing. 29 They stay not a day in bin and barn, 30 they make no food for the beer jar. 31 A moment is their stay in the granary, 32 comes morning, (and) they have vanished. 33 Better is poverty in the hand of the god, 34 than wealth in the storehouse. 35 Better is bread with a happy heart, 36 than wealth with vexation. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws. |
| ~ Letter to M. M. Noah, May 15, 1818 (James Madison, 1865, III, page 97) ~ |
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| A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits’ end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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