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Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Author: Unattributed Author
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.
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
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.
Author: Charles Dickens
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.
Author: John Dryden
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.
Author: Sir William Hamilton (1)
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.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (VIII, 73)
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If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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.]
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
Source: Les Caracteres (XII)
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (V, 19)
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
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.
Author: Henry More
Source: Antidote against Atheism
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What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Umbra
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
Author: William Shenstone
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),
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
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.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 1,254)
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