Common sense isn't.
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| I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Speech, April 10, 1899, Chicago. The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, ed. Brian MacArthur (1992). Roosevelt devoted much of his life to “strenuous” pursuits, building up a slender frame by vigorous exercise, and enduring extreme conditions as rancher and soldier. ~ |
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| The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. |
| ~ John Milton, Samson Agonistes. Line 86. ~ |
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| It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today. |
| ~ Grenville Kleiser ~ |
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| Within a stone's throw of it. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. ix. ~ |
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| In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Demosthenes. ~ |
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| The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book i. ~ |
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| This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. Act i. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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