#sensible

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. ↗

— George Bancroft

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It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment. ↗

— Glynis Johns

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. ↗

— Robert Blair

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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. ↗

— Emily Bronte

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