Seldom Quotes

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Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either… — Charles Caleb Colton
In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and… — Paul Robeson
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies… — William Hazlitt
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than… — James Madison
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. — Benjamin Franklin
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. — Benjamin Franklin
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. — Benjamin Franklin
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.… — Benjamin Franklin
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual… — Sigmund Freud
A good horse should be seldom spurred. — Thomas Fuller
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. — Edward Gibbon
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired… — William Gibson
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. — Oliver Goldsmith
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. — Oliver Goldsmith
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very… — Hugh Grant
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is… — G I Gurdjieff

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