Common sense isn't.
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| The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), 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). Referring to Pip, who had been cast away during a whale-chase. ~ |
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| Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 58, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill." |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Boldness. ~ |
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| All things are possible to one who believes |
| ~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux ~ |
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| I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. speech, Dec. 5, 1933, on the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. ~ |
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| By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die. |
| ~ John Milton, The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii. ~ |
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| And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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