Common Place Quotes by Frederick Buechner

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• A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake… — Aristotle
• Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face. — William Wordsworth
• It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to… — Herman Melville
• Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect… — William Jewett Tucker
• There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize… — Frederick Buechner
• Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would… — Arthur Helps
• Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to… — Mike Moreno
• For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full... — Jonathan Swift
• It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is… — Gary Zukav
• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people… — Lady Gregory
• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. — James Russell Lowell

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