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There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit. -- Martin Buber
I eat meat, the rarer the better. -- Dominique Swain
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. -- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. -- Charles Peguy
The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes. -- David Tennant
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -- Robert Half
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. -- Thor Heyerdahl
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. -- Elbert Hubbard
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. -- John Drinkwater
I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us. -- Bernard Arnault
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff. -- Enid Bagnold
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance. -- Eula Biss
In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. -- Twyla Tharp
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground. -- Toby Jones
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. -- Frederick William Faber
Good advice is rarer than rubies. -- Salman Rushdie
Nothing is rarer than real goodness. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Poets are far rarer birds than kings. -- Ben Jonson
Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. -- Carl von Clausewitz
A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. -- Juvenal
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. -- William Shakespeare
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. -- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. -- Ada Leverson
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still! -- Oscar Wilde
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. -- Josh Billings
In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator. -- Christopher Pike
I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day. -- Jon Foreman
In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. -- Antoine Rivarol
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. -- Eugene Ionesco
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. -- Henry A. Kissinger
That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body. -- Owen Wilson
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. -- Groucho Marx
The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. -- Walter Savage Landor
Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America. -- Mona Charen
Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it. -- Robertson Davies
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. -- Andre Gide
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. -- Rupert Brooke
It takes two to make a very great career: the man who is great, and the man--almost rarer--who is great enough to see greatness and say so. -- Ayn Rand
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. -- Washington Allston
Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds" -- David Mitchell
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage. -- John Charles Polanyi
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is. -- Maimonides
How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child. -- Robin Hobb
It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs. -- Charles Baudelaire
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. -- Bill Vaughan
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings -- Fernando Pessoa

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