“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The ideas that the whole human race is, in a sense, one thing- one huge organism, like a tree-must not be confused… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'm just a common man with common thoughts, and I feel I've lived a pretty common life; there will never be any… — Charles Akes Copy Share Image
For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Who am I? And how I wonder, will this story end? . . . My life? It is'nt easy to explain. It… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull andcommon life — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life.… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life, that each may be to the other a strength in… — Julia Spencer-Fleming Copy Share Image
“Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason—you could calculate the ratio as 24 to one. He set up two raging tyrants… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
