Quotes
Quotes about Sense
Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move;
For fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,
When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:
"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;
Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door
And keep him there, or shall we let him in
To try if we can turn him out again?"
Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play;
No sense have they of ills to come,
Nor care beyond to-day.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves, by thumping on your back,
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
A sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,--
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
Those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings,
Blank misgivings of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
Scared out of his seven senses.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams
Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ's bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave's intenser day,
All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
A Quixotic sense of the honorable--of the chivalrous.
Rich in saving common-sense,
And, as the greatest only are,
In his simplicity sublime.
He had used the word in a Pickwickian sense.
How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can.
And absorbed in the new life he leads,
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change.
It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Give me to die unwitting of the day,
And stricken in Life's brave heat, with senses clear!
