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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. -- James Broughton
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. -- Baltasar Gracian
Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. -- Henry David Thoreau
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. -- Elizabeth Edwards
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. -- Thomas More
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest. -- Jef I. Richards
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. -- Josh Billings
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. -- David Harsanyi
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. -- James Lafferty
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. -- Josh Billings
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
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. -- Milovan Djilas
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat. -- Adam Gopnik
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. -- Ike Skelton
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. -- William E. Gladstone
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble. -- John Lahr
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. -- Anita Loos
Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is to maintain success and integrity - the kinds of things that seem so easy just starting out. But that's the human predicament. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. -- George Saintsbury
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way. -- Theophilus London
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. -- Jonathan Sacks
You make the rarest canvas, love -- Madeline Miller
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense! -- George Meredith
Courage is the rarest of all good traits -- Dennis Prager
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns. -- Rumi
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess. -- Josh Billings
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. -- Jeremy Bentham
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman! -- George Meredith
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -- Simone Weil
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully. -- Lydia M. Child
The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage -- Dennis Prager
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest. -- Henry David Thoreau
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society. -- Peter Drucker
Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world. -- Ursula Nordstrom
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities. -- Vance Havner
A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. -- Walt Disney
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears. -- Gerald Massey
True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. -- Christopher Pike
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. -- Oscar Wilde
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. -- Jean Genet
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. -- Henry Ward Beecher
You are mysterious, I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. -- Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value. -- Andre Gide
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. -- J. C. Ryle
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things. -- Alexander Crummell
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness. -- Adolf Hitler
Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling. -- Robert Motherwell
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing. -- Asher Roth
Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases. -- Phyllis Schlafly
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. -- Henry David Thoreau
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. -- William Hazlitt
In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself. -- Brian Williams
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. -- Anthony Burgess
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. -- George Bernard Shaw
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another. -- Mark Twain
Honesty is the most talked about, the most desired but, at same time, one of the rarest qualities in present day world. -- Abhishek Ratna
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. -- William Hazlitt
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. -- Chanakya
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. -- Jeremy Bentham
The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness. -- Kedar Joshi
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. -- George Stillman Hillard
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. -- Milovan Djilas
Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility. -- Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation. -- Walter Lippmann
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious. -- Frank Bettger
Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns. -- Tony Robbins
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home. -- A. W. Tillinghast
[Victoria Clark] is one of those people who has the rarest combination of gifts. I can put her in any classical play tomorrow because she such an extraordinary actress. -- Bartlett Sher
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!.... -- Henry David Thoreau
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. -- Carl Jung
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A childhood without books â?? that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy. -- Astrid Lindgren
No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic. -- Peter Travers
Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all. -- Donna Lynn Hope
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 dream of a quiet man / who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows / where the rarest wildflowers / are blooming, and who goes, / and finds that he is smiling / not by his own will. -- Wendell Berry

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