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There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Henry David Thoreau
Common Sense, Common, No Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom, Common Sense, Common
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
Kings, Book, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.107, Penguin

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Common Sense, Perception
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Conclusion'.

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

Henry David Thoreau
Army, Common Sense, Navy
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.13, Yale University Press

If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

Henry David Thoreau
Marriage, Taken, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

Henry David Thoreau
History, Common Sense, Reform
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Views, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.245, Delphi Classics

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Eye, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103, Xist Publishing

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

Henry David Thoreau
Common Sense, Mind, Body
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.65, Courier Corporation

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Names, Common Sense

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Ideas, Common Sense
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.241, Graphic Arts Books

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