#common

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#common #french #french literature #literature #our

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#common #common things #endeavor #far #our

Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#ailments #bound #common #exemption #fellows

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#america #asia #common #each #free

We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed. ↗

— Bob Taft

#common #common goal #goal #our #share

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#entire #environment #faulkner #held #i

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#change #climate #common #common sense #fool

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. ↗

— George Bancroft

#common mind #criterion #decision #faculty #mind