| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | What thin partitions sense from thought divide. |
| Alexander Pope | 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. |
| Alexander Pope | Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. |
| Alexander Pope | Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam, Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. |
| Alexander Pope | What thin partitions sense from thought divide. |
| Alexander Pope | 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense. |
| Alexander Pope | Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. |
| Alexander Pope | Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. |
| Edward Young | 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. |
| Henry More | Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | Sensible people find nothing useless. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. |
| Sir William Hamilton | Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense. |
| William Shenstone | Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. |
| Charles Dickens | He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view. |
| John Dryden | Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. |
| Unattributed Author | Huzzaed out of my seven senses. |
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