Thomas Paine

Common sense is not so common.

Topic: Common Sense
Location: Yosemite National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. — Thomas Paine

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. — Thomas Paine

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He who dares not offend cannot be honest. — Thomas Paine

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine

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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle

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If you're going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill

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The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles. — Alan Cohen

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We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. — Ben Sweetland

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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Character matters; leadership descends from character. — Rush Limbaugh

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. — Mark Twain

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Look at the stars and not down at your own feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

› Stephen Hawking

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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. — Ann Wang

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

› William Penn

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. — Robert G. Ingersoll

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

› Buddha

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Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. — Arnold Glasow

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. — Thomas Edison

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

› G. K Chesterton

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Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want. — Benjamin Franklin

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People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

› Dr. Ben Carson

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Trust in God but lock your doors. — Russian Proverb

Common Sense Trust

For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too. — Egyptian Proverb

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A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do. — Mark Twain

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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

› Benjamin Franklin

Common Sense Learning

Never spend your money before you have earned it. — Thomas Jefferson

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. — William James

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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein

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Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature—daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it—rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

› Henry David Thoreau

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Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

› Edward Bradford Titchener

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. — George Orwell

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