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“...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.”

Turns Common Kings Appetite

Author:Laurel Lea

“The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.”

Source: Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings

“Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.”

Ifs Wells I Can Able Common Meditation Kings Yoga Common Sense Manifest Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.”

Men Common Race Generations Kings Twenties Common Sense One Man

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters.”

Men Should Forget Common Kings Rulers Alas Common Man

Book:Between Tears and Laughter

Source: Between Tears and Laughter

“The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.”

Law Perfect Common Land Products Kings Court Possession Goods Regulation Ownership Schemes Adopted Disputes Procedures Common Law

Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.”

Ifs Should Believe Ends Dream Reality Would Be Night I Believe Hours Common Objects Kings Twelve Every Night Realism Workmen

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.”

Choices Politics Common Too Much Advice Kings Monarchy

Author:Pierre Corneille

“It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.”

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Important Different Real Stories Common Sun Written Subjects Kings Walking Eternity Down And Significant Setting Settings Rising Companion Halls Palaces Eugene O Neill

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.”

“Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.”

Persons Walks Common Class Virtue Kings Comfortable Crowds

Book:Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”

Play Common Acting Kings Scene Conscience Inaction Hamlet 2 Most Memorable Important Hamlet Hamlet Theme Be Or Not To Be Hamlet Revenge Hamlet Significant

Author:William Shakespeare

“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!”

Ifs Men Life Running Earth Loses Hurt Walks Common Virtue Too Much Minutes Son Kings Distance Crowds My Son Seconds Foe Be A Man Unforgiving Loving Friends

Author:Rudyard Kipling