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[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.: Norman Podhoretz
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
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