Common sense isn't.
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| Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last—but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Jan. 8, 1852, to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 307. ~ |
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| I think myself that it will be expedient . . . to lay the foundation of the new system in such a ratification by the people themselves of the several States as will render it clearly paramount to their Legislative authorities. |
| ~ Letter to Thomas Jefferson, March 19, 1787 (James Madison, 1865, I, page 285) ~ |
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| Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things." |
| ~ Plutarch, Of the Love of Wealth. ~ |
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| Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, In Memoriam. ~ |
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| Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring god! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book iv. ~ |
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| The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. |
| ~William James ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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