"There is something in the soul that is so akin to God that it is one with Him... It has nothing in common with anything created."
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"Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp."
"They had nothing in common but the English language."
"Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with."
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
"The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken."
"The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny."
"Common Core is a big win for education."
"Common sense is genius in homespun."
"I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common."
"It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated."
"You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress."
"Two nations divided by a common language."
"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness."
"Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption."
"To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved."
"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
"It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged."
"The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so."
"It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge."