Seldom Quotes

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or… — Arthur E Waite
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite… — Richard Hugo
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence… — Unknown Author
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space. — Robert Grudin
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. — Unknown Author
Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it. — John C. Maxwell
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of a time are… — Wyndham Lewis
By todayâ€™s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.… — Joseph Sobran
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. — Tarthang Tulku
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. — Philip Massinger
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness… — John Tillotson
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling… — Lafcadio Hearn
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or… — Samuel Johnson
The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and… — Sandra Day O'Connor
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter,… — Lord Chesterfield
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which… — Jean de la Bruyere

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