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Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. -- Juvenal
Rare benevolence, the minister of God. -- Thomas Carlyle
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. -- Juvenal
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Rare are the people who can capture a human being. -- Kirsten Dunst
Rare and precious gifts,gold and myrrh and frankincense,to offer a king. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made. -- E. Millicent Sowerby
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. -- Edward Young
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.] -- Juvenal
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. -- Ovid
Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man. -- José N. Harris
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. -- Anthony de Mello
I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother. -- Robyn
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. -- Honore de Balzac
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. -- Alice Duer Miller
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. -- Thomas Harris
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. -- Rene Descartes
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! -- Homer
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. -- Baruch Spinoza
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. -- Brennan Manning
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads. -- Laura Prepon
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court. -- Pat Brown
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. -- Andrew Wiles
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. -- Michael Eisner
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. -- Dick Cavett
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. -- Arthur Erickson
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. -- Oriana Fallaci
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. -- Charles Bukowski
Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. -- Gwendoline Christie
I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow. -- Angelina Jolie
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best. -- Robin S. Sharma
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. -- Tom Wolfe
Stars are rare creatures, and not everyone can be one. But there isn't anyone on earth - not you, not me, not the girl next door - who wouldn't like to be a movie star holding up that gold statuette on Academy Award night. -- Sue Mengers
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. -- Roberto Burle Marx
Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships. -- Simon Mainwaring
The Antichrist will be the infernal prince again for the third and last time... so many evils shall be committed by the means of Satan, the infernal Prince, that almost the entire world shall be found undone and desolate. Before these events happen, many rare birds will cry in the air, 'Now! Now!' and sometime later will vanish. -- Nostradamus
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst. -- Julie Burchill
April's rare capricious loveliness. -- Julia Caroline Dorr
Star people are rare. -- Jerry Spinelli
Excellent things are rare. -- Plato
A rare theorist turned experimentalist. -- Willis Lamb
Happiness is a rare cosmetic. -- George Whyte-Melville
Quotation lovers love rare words. -- Willis Regier
Completeness is rare in history ... -- Barbara Tuchman
Christians are rare people on earth. -- Martin Luther
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. -- Anthony Burgess
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. -- Harriet Martineau
Good writers are of necessity rare. -- George Henry Lewes
Simplicity, very rare in our age. -- Ovid
Skills are common. Talent is rare. -- Colin Clark
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition. -- Robert Henri
Time itself made all things rare. -- Lionel Shriver
Constancy in a man is rare. -- Catherine Cookson
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. -- John Ruskin
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I hate losing laughs; they're rare things. -- Terry Gilliam
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. -- Thomas Sowell
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic. -- Jon Stewart
Common sense is as rare as genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The gift without the giver is rare. -- James Russell Lowell
Full stories are as rare as honesty. -- Zadie Smith
Good criticism is very rare and always precious. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious. -- Amy Bloom
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination. -- Petronius
entirely new concepts are very rare in politics ... -- Hannah Arendt
Friends might be rare but they're not irreplaceable -- Jeaniene Frost
Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity. -- David Dreman
You are horror and beauty in rare combination. -- Octavia Butler
I am a rare species, not a stereotype. -- Ivan E. Coyote
It's very rare that publications double their frequency. -- James Daly
Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare. -- James Cook
True lovers are as rare as true rebels. -- Masha Tupitsyn
I think that testosterone is a rare poison. -- Germaine Greer
Too weird to live, too rare to die! -- Hunter S. Thompson
A born king is a very rare being. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Common sense among men of fortune is rare. -- Juvenal
Valor is common but great souls are rare. -- Bernard-Joseph Saurin
The people of Iowa are a rare breed. -- Jason Reeves
Valor is common but great souls are rare. -- Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement. -- Wayne Thiebaud
Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder. -- Earl Derr Biggers
True sorrow is as rare as true love. -- Stephen King
In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare. -- Madeleine Albright
Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. -- Juvenal
Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. -- Augusten Burroughs
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude. -- George Eliot
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare. -- Baruch Spinoza
Knowledge is always there but wisdom is very rare. -- Debasish Mridha
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. -- Karen Horney
Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
I love a happy ending. They are so rare. -- Stephenie Meyer
If only art were as rare as good taste ... -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness. -- John Suckling
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. -- William Henry Moody
YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love. -- John Green
To find people who don't want anything is rare. -- Andrew Young
It is a rare goal that has only one path. -- Carma Spence
Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals -- William Graham Sumner
A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive. -- J.S.B. Morse
And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death. -- Terry Pratchett
I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare. -- Lauren Hutton
Except under rare circumstances, I don't write responses to criticism. -- Samuel P. Huntington
It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once. -- Samuel Beckett
Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself. -- George Sarton
All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains -- John Millington Synge
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. -- Fred Allen
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. -- S. D Gordon
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare -- Mark Twain
The red carpet we roll out come sizzling medium rare. -- Ruth Fertel
Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare. -- Joseph Campbell
Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower -- PZ Myers
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. -- Victor Hugo
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing. -- Dolly Parton
Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift. -- David Samuels

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