Seldom Quotes

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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life. — George D. Prentice
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the… — Charles Dickens
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. — Jean Rhys
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… — Samuel Johnson
Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control… — Epicurus
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. — Confucius
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty… — John C. Maxwell
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. — Napoleon Hill
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy. — Mark Twain
If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is seldom anything else. When the… — Paul Twitchell
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — Benoit Mandelbrot
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. — Bernard de Mandeville
Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasÃ© or focused on your crotch while jabbering… — Anneli Rufus
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. — Samuel Johnson
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save… — Omar N. Bradley
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… — Samuel Johnson

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