Common sense isn't.
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| We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 33, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Delight in vigilance; carefully guard your own mind. Pull yourself out of lower states of being, as the elephant pulls himself out of the mud. |
| ~The Elephant ~ |
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| As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one’s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XVIII, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll Of black artillery; he comes, though late; In code corroborating Calvin’s creed And cynic tyrannies of honest kings; He comes, nor parlies; and the Town, redeemed, Gives thanks devout; nor, being thankful, heeds The grimy slur on the Republic’s faith implied, Which holds that Man is naturally good, And—more—is Nature’s Roman, never to be scourged. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The House-Top (l. 19–27). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. |
| ~ John Milton, Lycidas. Line 193. ~ |
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| At the moment when strong feelings of anger arise, no matter how hard one tries to adopt a dignified pose, one's face looks rather ugly. The vibration that person sends is very hostile. People can sense it, and it is almost as if one can feel steam coming out of that person's body. Indeed, not only are human beings capable of sensing it, but pets and other animals also try to avoid that person at that instant. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, March 16, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| But it is bad to stop, hard to be satisfied with a single way of seeing, to go without contradiction, perhaps the most subtle of all spiritual forces. The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning, Absurd Freedom, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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