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It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,… — Reinhold Messner
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is… — John Calvin
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false… — Norbert Wiener
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come… — J I Packer
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of… — Nelson Algren
There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Unknown Author
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning… — Otto Weininger
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so… — Kate Millett
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in… — Robert Penn Warren
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. — George Washington
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the… — Unknown Author
Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If… — Andreas Libavius
It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the… — Anne Bronte
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of… — Brian Ferneyhough
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. — Mason Cooley
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.… — Isoroku Yamamoto
Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime...… — Harry Hopkins
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely… — Saint Francis de Sales
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always… — Horace Bushnell
You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I… — Aristotle
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find… — Samuel Johnson

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