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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume;
The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume;
The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;
When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;
Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of
themselves.
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
