Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Topic: Common Sense
Location: Cancun, Mexico
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

› Harriet Beecher Stowe

Accountability Responsibility

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspiration Perseverance Persistence

Never give up, for that is the place and time the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Commitment Perseverance Persistence

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coal pit, and twice as foul. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Honesty Truth

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Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough. — Italian Proverb

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Listening is the best way to learn. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Peace is the father of friendship. — African Proverb

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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. — Mark Twain

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Everybody likes a compliment. — Abraham Lincoln

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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member’s talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service. — Ray Kroc

Customer Service Team

If you don't allow for error, how do you expect to succeed? — Jeffrey Benjamin

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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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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

› Ecclesiasticus 31:1

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

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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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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

› Edward Bradford Titchener

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold

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

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If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. — Mark Twain

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Trust in God but lock your doors. — Russian Proverb

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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

› G. K Chesterton

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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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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

› Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

› Dr. Ben Carson

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

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