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- Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
- David Sarnoff
- Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.
- Brendan Francis
- Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
- Stanilaus
- If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
- Frederick Saunders
- Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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