Common sense isn't.
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| He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? |
| ~ John Milton, Samson Agonistes. Line 1350. ~ |
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| With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 83. ~ |
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| Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Supplement.” “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 465, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). ~ |
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| Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. |
| ~ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 120.; George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788-1824) ~ |
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| Second thoughts, they say, are best. |
| ~ John Dryden, The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 2. ~ |
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| Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own. |
| ~ Plutarch, Laconic Apophthegms. Of Agesilaus the Great. ~ |
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| Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? |
| ~ Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1185. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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