Rarest Quotes
115 quotes by 99 authors
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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
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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
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The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
— Lydia M. Child
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
— Josh Billings
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
— Josh Billings
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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
— George Meredith
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
— George Meredith
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