Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

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

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

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

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

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

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

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

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

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.

Skinheads and Neo-Nazis are commonly known to openly attack people who get in their way or don't agree with them and their agenda.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

How do I tone my bingo wings?' is one of the most commonly asked questions that strikes fear and dread into a personal trainer's heart.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.

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.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

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