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Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
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Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
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Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
Fortuna.]
Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.
Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.
Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.