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When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow (Commonplace Quotes)
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy (Commonplace Quotes)
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become (Commonplace Quotes)
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it (Commonplace Quotes)
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important (Commonplace Quotes)
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land (Commonplace Quotes)
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect (Commonplace Quotes)
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic (Commonplace Quotes)
The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work (Commonplace Quotes)
Nothing is more commonplace than the reading experience, and yet nothing is more unknown. Reading is such a matter of course that at first glance it seems there is nothing to say about it (Commonplace Quotes)
I’m saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity (Commonplace Quotes)
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich (Commonplace Quotes)
Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home (Commonplace Quotes)
Talent isn’t genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more (Commonplace Quotes)
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us (Commonplace Quotes)
The more enlarged is our own mind, the greater number we discover of men of originality. Your commonplace people see no difference between one man and another (Commonplace Quotes)
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young (Commonplace Quotes)
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year (Commonplace Quotes)
Man is sick and nations have gone mad. You would not even tolerate for one moment the conduct in an individual that is commonplace in the acts of some nations. You would lock up such a person (Commonplace Quotes)
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books... Finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams (Commonplace Quotes)
It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be (Commonplace Quotes)
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with (Commonplace Quotes)
The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing (Commonplace Quotes)
It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery (Commonplace Quotes)
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting (Commonplace Quotes)
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace (Commonplace Quotes)
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable (Commonplace Quotes)
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today (Commonplace Quotes)
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them (Commonplace Quotes)
I hate the word ‘ought’ - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The ‘ought nots’ of life are its pleasantest things (Commonplace Quotes)