Common sense isn't.
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| War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 10, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). Spoken by a fictional John Paul Jones. ~ |
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| What a strange thing is man! and what a stranger Is woman! |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto ix. Stanza 64. ~ |
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| Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 6. ~ |
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| Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. |
| ~ Ella Fitzgerald. ~ |
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| An evil deed is like milk: it may not turn sour right away. An evil deed smolders like buried coals that will burn you at a later date. |
| ~The Fool ~ |
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| But seldom the laurel wreath is seen Unmixed with pensive pansies dark; There’s a light and a shadow on every man Who at last attains his lifted mark— Nursing through night the ethereal spark. Elate he never can be; He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth, Sleep in oblivion.—The shark Glides white through the phosphorus sea. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. Commemorative of a Naval Victory (l. 19–27). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| Many deities and humans, yearning after good, have pondered on Blessings. Pray, tell me the Supreme Blessings. |
| ~ Mahamangala Sutta (Discourse of the Supreme Blessings, Theravada Buddhist sutra) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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