Rarest Quotes

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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. — Josh Billings
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. — Jean de la Bruyere
The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid… — Margot Asquith
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully. — Lydia M. Child
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always… — John Ruskin
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit… — Martin Buber
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet… — Henry David Thoreau
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. — Josh Billings
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. — Josh Billings
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense! — George Meredith
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess,… — Christopher Columbus
The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into… — Hunter S. Thompson
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman! — George Meredith

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