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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Apply Become Commonly Great
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Been Commonly Great Great Men
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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Careless Commonly Curious Face
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Beasts Brute Commonly Domain
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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Animal Birds Breeds Commonly
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

Agree Another Becomes Cause
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

The Lord Gives Riches
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Accurate Commonly Cynicism Got
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Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Always Bodies Commonly Conceived
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Commonly see Diminution Freedom
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

Action Commonly Parts Existence
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Cases Commonly Experience Fire
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Success is commonly defined as money and power, but increasingly that’s not enough. It’s almost like a two-legged stool where you fall over if that’s all you measure your life by

Success Defined Money Power
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Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.

Realistic Commonly Road Mediocrity
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

Affliction Experiences Love God
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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together

Eagles Fly alone Crows Flock together
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