Common sense isn't.
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| Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus. Part v. ~ |
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| He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, A Poet's Epitaph. Stanza 10. ~ |
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| If you rely on someone who has lower qualities than yourself, that will lead to your degeneration; if you rely on someone who has qualities similar to yourself, you will stay where you are; and if you rely on someone who has better qualities than yourself, that will help you to achieve sublime status. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, July 12, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Man lording it over man, man kneeling to man, is a spectacle that Gabriel might well travel hitherward to behold; for never did he behold it in heaven. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 60, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). ~ |
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| ... Man's first civilization gave great place to intoxication. Long before there was decadence or world-weariness, men and women wanted to change their response to the planet on which they had evolved to self-consciousness. |
| ~Jacquetta Hawkes, The First Great Civilization ~ |
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| Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, "She can choose best," and so took both away with him. |
| ~ Plutarch, Laconic Apophthegms. Of Lysander. ~ |
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| Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 9. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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