| 18 Sense Quotes
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“Huzzaed out of my seven senses.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: in the "Spectator", no. 616, Nov, 5, 1774
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“Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.”
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (ch. IX)
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“He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. I)
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“Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 868)
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“Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.”
Sir William Hamilton (1) Quotes Source: Notes on Reid
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“Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
[Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
Fortuna.]”
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) Quotes Source: Satires (VIII, 73)
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“If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (vol. II, ch. II)
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“Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between
cause and effect.
[Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la
cause a son effet.]”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: Les Caracteres (XII)
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“Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Fables (V, 19)
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“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
Jean de La Fontaine Quotes Source: Fables (V, 19)
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“Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.”
Henry More Quotes Source: Antidote against Atheism
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“What thin partitions sense from thought divide.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 226)
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“'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 179)
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“Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. IV, l. 43)
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“Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Umbra
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“Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.”
William Shenstone Quotes Source: Ode to a Lady
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“Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: Philosophical Dictionary--Self Love
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“Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume;
The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;
When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;
Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 1,254)
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