Common sense isn't.
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| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910.—“Citizenship in a Republic,” The Strenuous Life (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 21, p. 510 (1926). ~ |
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| There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 21. ~ |
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| The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. |
| ~P.G. Wodehouse ~ |
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| The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 631. ~ |
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| If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 8, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984). ~ |
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| But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? |
| ~ Robert Browning, Balaustion's Adventure. ~ |
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| Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Fortune. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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