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title: "99 Common life Quotes by 84 authors"
description: "Browse 99 Common life quotes by 84 authors. Discover the best Common life sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Common sense will only get you a common life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryant-mcgill/common-sense-will-only-get-you-a-common-life/)

[Bryant McGill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryant-mcgill/)

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> [When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antisthenes/when-brothers-agree-no-fortress-is-so-strong-as-their-common-life/)

[Antisthenes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antisthenes/)

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> [Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull andcommon life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aphra-behn/each-moment-of-a-happy-lover-s-hour-is-worth-an-age-of-dull-andcommon/)

[Aphra Behn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aphra-behn/)

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> [God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/god-grants-us-an-uncommon-life-to-the-degree-we-surrender-our-common/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aphra-behn/each-moment-of-a-happy-lover-s-hour-is-worth-an-age-of-dull-and/)

[Aphra Behn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aphra-behn/)

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> [It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-spenser/it-often-falls-in-course-of-common-life-that-right-long-time-is/)

[Edmund Spenser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-spenser/)

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> [“Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aphra-behn/each-moment-of-a-happy-love-s-hour-is-worth-an-age-of-dull-and-common/)

[Aphra Behn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aphra-behn/)

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> [Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-bridges/biblical-community-is-first-of-all-the-sharing-of-a-common-life-in/)

[Jerry Bridges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-bridges/)

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> [The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryant-h-mcgill/the-only-thing-you-will-get-from-common-sense-is-a-common-life-be/)

[Bryant H. McGill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryant-h-mcgill/)

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> [Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tryon-edwards/common-sense-is-of-all-kinds-the-most-uncommon-it-implies-good/)

[Tryon Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tryon-edwards/)

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> [Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-sandel/democracy-does-not-require-perfect-equality-but-it-does-require-that-2/)

[Michael Sandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-sandel/)

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> [The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-addams/the-good-we-secure-for-ourselves-is-precarious-and-uncertain-until-it/)

[Jane Addams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-addams/)

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> [“They were not spontaneous people. They were born with too great a love of words, a passion for drama at the expense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stella-benson/they-were-not-spontaneous-people-they-were-born-with-too-great-a-love/)

[Stella Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stella-benson/)

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> [These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/these-papers-of-the-day-have-uses-more-adequate-to-the-purposes-of/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-k-rowling-2/murder-like-talent-seems-occasionally-to-run-in-families-george-henry/)

[J. K. Rowling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-k-rowling-2/)

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> [“... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-nakhjavani/there-is-nothing-harder-in-life-than-to-not-conform-to-the-common/)

[Violette Nakhjavani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-nakhjavani/)

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> [For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/for-the-church-is-not-a-human-society-of-people-united-by-their/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-poor-and-the-low-have-their-way-of-expressing-the-last-facts-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mortimer-adler/we-wish-the-joy-of-love-the-joy-of-companionship-of-being-in-the/)

[Mortimer Adler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mortimer-adler/)

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> [In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/in-mathematical-analysis-we-call-x-the-undetermined-part-of-line-a/)

[Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/)

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> [I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-dworkin/i-love-cherish-and-respect-women-in-my-mind-in-my-heart-and-in-my/)

[Andrea Dworkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-dworkin/)

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> [“He came to save sinners, to heal the sick, to preach the good news to the poor, and to live a common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-kennelly/he-came-to-save-sinners-to-heal-the-sick-to-preach-the-good-news-to/)

[Brian Kennelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-kennelly/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ignatieff/politics-isn-t-a-reality-show-or-a-gong-show-it-s-not-show-business/)

[Michael Ignatieff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ignatieff/)

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> [“The new Constitution, however, is brought to us by a Muse, ordained by the authority of the People, and established at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garrett-epps/the-new-constitution-however-is-brought-to-us-by-a-muse-ordained-by/)

[Garrett Epps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garrett-epps/)

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> [“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/such-are-the-limitations-of-the-human-mind-and-so-thoroughly/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-law/devotion-signifies-a-life-given-or-devoted-to-god-he-therefore-is-the/)

[William Law](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-law/)

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> [“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-jaques-rousseau/so-long-as-government-and-law-provide-for-the-security-and-well-being/)

[Jean-Jaques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-jaques-rousseau/)

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> [Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/let-us-become-thoroughly-sensible-of-the-weakness-blindness-and/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/for-the-good-we-get-from-art-is-not-what-we-learn-from-it-it-is-what/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garrison-keillor/forget-what-you-learned-about-poetry-in-school-that-it-s-complex/)

[Garrison Keillor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garrison-keillor/)

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> [“Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason—you could calculate the ratio as 24 to one. He set up two raging tyrants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-goleman/jupiter-has-bestowed-far-more-passion-than-reason-you-could-calculate/)

[Daniel Goleman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-goleman/)

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> [“Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/such-are-the-limitations-of-the-common-mind-and-so-thoroughly/)

[Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/)

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> [“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-told-you-in-the-course-of-this-paper-that-shakespeare-had-a-sister-2/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [“Just as summer-killed meat draws flies, so the court draws spurious sages, philosophists, and acosmists who remain there as long as their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-wolfe/just-as-summer-killed-meat-draws-flies-so-the-court-draws-spurious/)

[Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-wolfe/)

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> [“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/these-metaphysic-rights-entering-into-common-life-like-rays-of-light/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [“Who am I? And how I wonder, will this story end? . . . My life? It is'nt easy to explain. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/who-am-i-and-how-i-wonder-will-this-story-end-my-life-it-is-nt-easy/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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> [“Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!” cried Hubert. “Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-james/heaven-preserve-us-what-a-hotch-potch-cried-hubert-is-that-what-they/)

[Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-james/)

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> [“Doctrinal formulae are neither a set of neat definitions nor some sort of affront to the free-thinking soul; they are words that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-williams/doctrinal-formulae-are-neither-a-set-of-neat-definitions-nor-some/)

[Rowan Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-williams/)

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> [ “\[H\]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/h-is-first-purpose-was-to-explain-himself-and-before-they-reached-mr/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/my-belief-is-that-if-we-live-another-century-or-so-i-am-talking-of/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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                        "text": "In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.",
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                        "text": "“He came to save sinners, to heal the sick, to preach the good news to the poor, and to live a common life hidden from his people for thirty years. He did not come to entertain kings and be served in palace dining halls.”",
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                        "text": "“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps. Prophets, indeed, were abundant before the war; but who cares for prophets while their predictions remain unfulfilled, and the calamities of which they tell are masked behind a blinding blaze of national prosperity?”",
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                        "text": "“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to his Glory.”",
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                        "text": "“So long as government and law provide for the security and well-being of men in their common life, the arts, literature and the sciences, less despotic though perhaps more powerful, fling garlands of flowers over the chains which weight them down. They stifle in men's breasts that sense of original liberty, for which they seem to have been born; cause them to love their own slavery, and so make of them what is called a civilized people.”",
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                        "text": "Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice… When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?",
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                        "text": "“For the good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it. Its real influence will be in giving the mind that enthusiasm which is the secret of Hellenism, accustoming it to demand from art all that art can do in rearranging the facts of common life for us - whether it be by giving the most spiritual interpretation of one’s own moments of highest passion or the most sensuous expression of those thoughts that are the farthest removed from sense; in accustoming it to love the things of the imagination for their own sake, and to desire beauty and grace in all things. For he who does not love art in all things does not love it at all, and he who does not need art in all things does not need it at all.”",
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                        "text": "Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.",
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                        "text": "“Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason—you could calculate the ratio as 24 to one. He set up two raging tyrants in opposition to Reason’s solitary power: anger and lust. How far Reason can prevail against the combined forces of these two the common life of man makes quite clear. Reason does the only thing she can and shouts herself hoarse, repeating formulas of virtue, while the other two bid her go hang herself, and are increasingly noisy and offensive, until at last their Ruler is exhausted, gives up, and surrenders.”",
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                        "text": "“Such are the limitations of the common mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps.”",
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                        "text": "“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee’s life of the poet. She died young—alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross–roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here to–night, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh. This opportunity, as I think, it is now coming within your power to give her. For my belief is that if we live another century or so—I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals—and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting–room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky. too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton’s bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare’s sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down. Drawing her life from the lives of the unknown who were her forerunners, as her brother did before her, she will be born. As for her coming without that preparation, without that effort on our part, without that determination that when she is born again she shall find it possible to live and write her poetry, that we cannot expect, for that would he impossible. But I maintain that she would come if we worked for her, and that so to work, even in poverty and obscurity, is worth while.”",
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                        "text": "“Just as summer-killed meat draws flies, so the court draws spurious sages, philosophists, and acosmists who remain there as long as their purses and their wits will maintain them, in the hope (at first) of an appointment from the Autarch and (later) of obtaining a tutorial position in some exalted family. At sixteen or so, Thecla was attracted, as I think young women often are, to their lectures on theogony, thodicy, and the like, and I recall one particularly in which a phoebad put forward as an ultimate truth the ancient sophistry of the existence of three Adonai, that of the city (or of the people), that of the poets, and that of the philosophers. Her reasoning was that since the beginning of human consciousness (if such a beginning ever was) there have been vast numbers of persons in the three categories who have endeavored to pierce the secret of the divine. If it does not exist, they should have discovered that long before; if it does, it is not possible that Truth itself should mislead them. Yet the beliefs of the populace, the insights of the rhapsodists, and the theories of the metaphysicians have so far diverged that few of them can so much as comprehend what the others say, and someone who knew nothing of any of their ideas might well believe there was no connection at all between them. May it not be, she asked (and even now I am not certain I can answer), that instead of traveling, as has always been supposed, down three roads to the same destination, they are actually traveling toward three quite different ones? After all, when in common life we behold three roads issuing from the same crossing, we do not assume they all proceed toward the same goal. I found (and find) this suggestion as rational as it is repellent, and it represents for me all that monomaniacal fabric of argument, so tightly woven that not even the tiniest objection or spark of light can escape its net, in which human minds become enmeshed whenever the subject is one in which no appeal to fact is possible. As a fact the Claw was thus an incommensurable. No quantity of money, no piling up of archipelagoes or empires could approach it in value any more than the indefinite multiplication of horizontal distance could be made to equal vertical distance. If it was, as I believed, a thing from outside the universe, then its light, which I had seen shine faintly so often, and a few times brightly, was in some sense the only light we had. If it were destroyed, we were left fumbling in the dark.”",
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                        "text": "“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction. The nature of man is intricate; the objects of society are of the greatest possible complexity: and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable to man’s nature, or to the quality of his affairs. When I hear the simplicity of contrivance aimed at and boasted of in any new political constitutions, I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty.”",
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                        "text": "“Who am I? And how I wonder, will this story end? . . . My life? It is'nt easy to explain. It has not been the rip-roaring spectacular I fancied it woulf be, but neither have I burrowed around with the gophers. i suppose it has most resembled a bluechip stock: fairly stable, more ups and downs, and gradually tending over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say this about his life. But do not be misled. I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am common man with common thought and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind, it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow. I have no complaints about the places it has taken me, enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other thins, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I would'nt have had it any other way. Time, unfortunatley, does'nt make it easy to stay on course. The path is straight as ever, but now it is strewn with the rocks and gravel that accumulated over a lifetime . . . There is always a moment right before I begin to read the story when my mind churns, and I wonder, will it happen today? I don't know, for I never know beforehand, and deep down it really doesn't matter. It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part. And though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. I realize that odds, and science, are againts me. But science is not the answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things. So once again, just as I do ecery day, I begin to read the notebook aloud, so that she can hear it, in the hope that the miracle, that has come to dominate my life will once again prevail. And maybe, just maybe, it will.”",
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                        "text": "“Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!” cried Hubert. “Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but when I glance into one, I’m sure to find some such stuff as that! Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination. Common life — I don’t say it’s a vision of bliss, but it’s better than that! Their stories are like the underside of a carpet, — nothing but the stringy grain of the tissue — a muddle of figures without shape and flowers without color. When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust; I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement. Your clergyman here with his Romish sweetheart must be a very pretty fellow. Why didn’t he marry her first and convert her afterwards? Isn’t a clergyman after all, before all, a man?”",
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                        "text": "“Doctrinal formulae are neither a set of neat definitions nor some sort of affront to the free-thinking soul; they are words that tell us enough truth to bring us to the edge of speech, and words that sustain enough common life to hold us there together in worship and mutual love... I learned to rethink Hegel and to grasp that what he was concerned with was not a system that could be projected on to some detached reality 'out there', but a habit of thinking that always sought to understand itself as a process of self-questioning and self-dissolution in the process of discovering *real* language - and thus real thinking. It is the energy of surpassing the settled individual self in the journey to truth... The Hegelian point (as I understand it) is that meaning does not come in the gaps between words or things, but in the way in which the structure and the surface of the world and speech can be so read and heard as to lead us into new and strange configurations of understanding - how words and things always deliver more than themselves, more than a series of objects and labels, and so both undermine and re-establish appearances. Hans Urs von Balthasar... developed an aesthetic of extraordinary depth in which some of the same themes may be discerned. His 'dramatic' construal of the world is meant to remind us that we do not start from intuitions of spiritual truth and then embody them in some way in practices and words. First we are addressed and engaged by what is utterly outside our capacity; we are forced towards new horizons. For Balthasar, this is how we establish on the firmest basis the recognition of the gap between what we can achieve or understand and what God makes known to us... God is free from obligation to our good deeds, free from confinement in our categories; God defines who he is by what he says and does, in revelation.”",
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                        "text": "“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted in all the excellencies of her character and truly loved her society, I must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude, or, in other words, that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought. It is a new circumstance in romance, I acknowledge, and dreadfully derogatory of an heroine's dignity; but if it be as new in common life, the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own.”",
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                        "text": "“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals — and have five hundred a year each of us and rooms of our own; if we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think; if we escape a little from the common sitting-room and see human beings not always in their relation to each other but in relation to reality; and the sky, too, and the trees or whatever it may be in themselves; if we look past Milton's bogey, for no human being should shut out the view; if we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women, then the opportunity will come and the dead poet who was Shakespeare's sister will put on the body which she has so often laid down.”",
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