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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — John Ruskin
- God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley
- Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest… — 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… — Martin Buber
- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,… — Henry David Thoreau
- Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. — Josh Billings