Best Scarcely Lines
384 Scarcely quotes by 278 unique authors
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I need scarcely say that the beginning and maintenance of life on earth is absolutely and infinitely beyond the range of all sound speculation in…
— Lord Kelvin
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Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its…
— Jacques Monod
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When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.
— Victoria Alexander
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then…
— William Booth
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Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my…
— Thomas Merton
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What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to…
— Charles Darwin
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There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular…
— Winston Churchill
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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it…
— John Daniel
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It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
— Samuel Johnson
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Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
— Hilaire Belloc
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As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely…
— Carl Jung
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In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people…
— Leigh Page
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There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever…
— John Calvin
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The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either…
— Ole Hallesby
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
— Frederick Buechner
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Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he…
— John Amos
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Of hobbies there are many, many, kinds. For example, money-making. But money-making is not exactly a hobby, for it will scarcely carry a boy along…
— John Cotton Dana
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A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by…
— John Stuart Mill
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