Common Quotes

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There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe. — Marcus Aurelius
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name… — Isaac Newton
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being… — Charles Baudelaire
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing… — Barry Commoner
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy… — John Keats
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense. — Agnes Repplier
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime... — Lord Acton
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty… — John Philpot Curran
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without… — Samuel Johnson
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary… — Samuel Johnson
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot
Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them. — Charles Caleb Colton
[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the… — Loren Eiseley
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. — William Wordsworth
Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it. — Wallace D. Wattles

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