Seldom Quotes

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a… — Benjamin Franklin
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. — Simeon Strunsky
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the… — Bertrand Russell
Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do. — Malcolm Forbes
Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe… — J C Ryle
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion,… — Julian of Norwich
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — William James
People seldom live up to their baby pictures. — Rodney Dangerfield
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. — Thomas Carlyle
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels,… — Charles Dickens
Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then. — Henry Ford
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give… — Nan Fairbrother
We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that… — Charles Handy
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. — Robert Breault
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. — Joseph Hall
The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider… — George Polya
Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the… — P D Ouspensky
I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the… — Marguerite Duras

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