 Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.  Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright - Page 101by William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 521 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Costume - 1832 - 372 pages
...good name." S. THB O.VTHEREU. THE OATHEREK. " A snapper up of unconsidcred trifles." Skaktpeare. FIKJS sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense, and he that will carry nothing about him but gold,... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - English language - 1899 - 228 pages
...of that.—JAMES MERRICK. 6. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well. — HORACE MANN. 7. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.—ALEXANDER POPE. 8. Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day.... | |
 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - American literature - 1905 - 614 pages
...hypocrite would not put on the appearance of virtue if it was not the most proper means to gain love." "Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry nothing about with him... | |
 | Julia Augusta Schwartz - 1906 - 370 pages
...did push me away from her that first day — you know she did." CHAPTER XIV ALL KINDS OF SENSE " ' Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense,' " chanted Myra one Sunday morning in October as she pulled papers from drawers and pigeonholes and... | |
 | 1911 - 482 pages
...success depends upon the care and judgment with which it is used. In fact, as Pope has aptly said, "fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense," and this is true, whether it be in everyday life or in the practice of medicine.—Reprinted in toto... | |
 | 1919 - 520 pages
...has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. — Horace Walpole. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry nothing about with him... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - Readers - 1919 - 456 pages
...Lincoln developed 0. his power. Read aloud the paragraph beginning, — "I look into the crystal globe." Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. ABRAHAM LINCOLN • THEODORE ROOSEVELT This noble tribute to Abraham Lincoln is part of a speech made... | |
 | Natural gas - 1919 - 574 pages
...the roads, and along one of them came a heavy mule team, which kicked up an enormous cloud of Pine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. — Pope. dust ; some carpenters working a piece off in the woods saw it, and some one started the... | |
 | House painting - 1924 - 564 pages
...touch And yet I do not cost so much, For I am Paint, new life I bring To many an old forgotten thing. Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. — Pope. |ye That lHRATES fO N'S D YE !pi: 3|r'3&*£MM$ iNni!- fr°m the iSittl. TP^iWnexpensiv wood... | |
 | 1904 - 314 pages
...endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. * * * Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold,... | |
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