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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power.

While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to survive, but to persevere and rebuild their shattered lives.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

The end crowns all,_x000D__x000D_And that old common arbitrator, Time,_x000D__x000D_Will one day end it.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

The common denominator for success is work.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.