"Commonsense is the wick of the candle...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
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“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”
“The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.”
“Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.”
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“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.”
“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”