Common sense isn't.
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| Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Letter, May 22, 1860, to his brother, Allan Melville. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| In tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;Mnevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these drowning men do drown. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XXII, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice. |
| ~ Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1236. ~ |
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| There are several lesser cases enumerated in my proposition, in which I wish also to see some alteration take place. That article which leaves it in the power of the legislature to ascertain its own emolument is one to which I allude . . . [T]here is a seeming impropriety in leaving any set of men without control to put their hand into the public coffers, to take out money to put in their pockets; there is a seeming indecorum in such power, which leads me to propose a change . . . I have gone therefore so far as to fix it, that no law, varying the compensation, shall operate until there is a change in the legislature; in which case it cannot be for the particular benefit of those who are concerned in determining the value of the service. |
| ~ (James Madison) Proposing Bill of Rights to House, June 8, 1789 ~ |
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| There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x. ~ |
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| Oath and anchors equally will drag; nought else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “The Encantadas” (1854), Sketch Eighth, The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). ~ |
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| "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile sufferings. It makes fate a human matter, which must be settled among men. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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