A man who is white-washing a fence is doing a useful thing, so also is the man who is adorning a rich man's house with costly frescoes; and all of us are sane enough to judge these performances by standards proper to each.
That was a sane Fourth of July celebration that I attended, and I must say that Mr. Lockjaw Germ looked a bit lonely.
Every time I was more convinced than before that she was thoroughly sane in every practical sense, and that she would recall everything as soon as I reminded her.
At all events, he considers me sane enough now, else he would hardly honour me with so much of his confidence as he does.
My dear Hooker, You gave the geographers some uncommonly sane advice.
Sane or insane, fearful thing it is, when I can be comforted by an assurance of the latter; but I neither know nor dare hear of any mid state, of no vague necessities dare I hear.
His analysis of himself in the essay "Of Cruelty" is the message of a saneman to sane men; and he does not hesitate to point out the fact that no hatred is so absolute as that which Christians can cover with the cloak of Christianity.
I would not have it otherwise," she said, half as in wonder; "I would not have you be quite sane like other men.
Assuredly, I would not have you be quite sane like other men," she repeated.
Reason, judgment, renunciation, all the sane daylight forces, were beaten back in the sharp struggle for self-preservation.
That is certainly the sane view; but the queer thing about society is that the people who regard it as an end are those who are in it, and not the critics on the fence.
But the lady's sweet, sane being was a light in the pall of brutality that hung over the ship.
They had all, consciously or unconsciously, depended upon Newman's sane strength.
This might occasionally be asked of the world's famous: not only of those whose art has been the evilly exquisite outcome of spiritual disease, but even of the great sane successful reputations.
We have argued as though for ourselves, and that on those lines we should have reached the sane conclusion is somewhat surprising.
But, in the end, he opened his big blue eyes, sane and convalescent.
You ought to have waked me before," Jones said, when he had swept the scene, with sanerealization in his eye.
Now on his own ground no man was ever more sane or more reverent.
An excitement that could no longer affectsane adults was spread among the children in the south of France and in the Rhone Valley.
He is terribly saneand luminous, and terribly wanting in self-sacrificial enthusiasm.
Unable to surmount or remove these obstacles to a sane and effective popular government, the political instincts of the Roman mind turned towards monarchy.
These commonplaces of American thought, these secret desires of every sane man, came like a great light upon the darkness of anger and conflict in Europe.
Though he was, like all poets, delicately organized, he was an unusually sane and self-reliant man, quite sure of the value of his work.
But it is possible to be sane and erudite without being leaden, to approach a noble subject earnestly without striking an attitude of priestly austerity.
I believe that it has not dawned on the most well-intentioned of my readers that here is the outcome of a sane philosophic sensibility, and not a medley of a hundred outworn paradoxes and heterodoxes.
Yet she was sane enough, and normal, only in dearth ofsane and normal outlets for emotion, for energy, for personality, she had taken these strange directions for yet unharnessed forces.
We need a sane Christmas in the world a good sight more'n we need a sane Fourth, most places.
On a placard below him Simeon had laboriously lettered:-- High Cost of Living and too much fuss Makes Folks want a Sane Christmas Me Too.
She was a sane and sensible young woman, who knew that she was exceedingly good looking and was glad of it in the same wholesome way that she was glad she had a good singing voice.
He wasn't a man to overestimate his ability; he possessed a singularly sane and clear appreciation of the true value of his work, harbouring no illusions as to his real status either as dramatist or novelist.
Lassie opened and shut her free hand with a sensation of being very uneasy; the suspicion that Alva was not quite sane just lightly crossed her mind.
As a safe and sane compromise she took refuge behind the back of the wing-chair.
No sane person would think of attempting it," he added under his breath.
No sane person will think of our getting down the track this way.
In almost every such case work, or the square of work which is hurry, or the cube of work which is worry, carried beyond the sane limits which Epicurus prescribes, is at the root of trouble.
From the moment of its appearance to the present day, this piece has been an unceasing joy to all who love literature with a sane devotion.
Among these may be numbered the ballroom mood, which drives quite sane people to act madly.
