Rare Quotes

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if… — Henry David Thoreau
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but… — Charles Frazier
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
You think of me as aâ€¦ living stone â€” hard and cold. Thatâ€™s true. We are set the way we are, and it is very… — Stephenie Meyer
It is so rare in this world to meet a trustworthy person who truly wants to help you, and finding such a person can make… — Daniel Handler
It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you.… — Madeleine L'Engle
Giving styleâ€ to oneâ€™s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of… — Oscar Wilde
Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man. — Diana Gabaldon
And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me. And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to… — James Patterson
He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl. — Dave Barry
The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical… — Nicole Krauss
Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though,… — Shan Sa
I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web,… — M.F.K. Fisher
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and… — Herman Melville
In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. — Khaled Hosseini
...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the… — Jeff Lindsay

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