#rarer

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#far #finer #more #much #rarer

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

#great #great man #great men #greatness #his

I eat meat, the rarer the better. ↗

— Dominique Swain

#eat #i #meat #rarer

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Robert Half

#more #much #rarer #recognize #scarce

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

#called #different #effect #exists #hit

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

#also #being #criticisms #deal #deeds

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

#breed #come #dancer #dancers #days

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

#commoner #everyone #fool #friend #himself

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage. ↗

— William Slim

#higher #moral #moral courage #physical #physical courage

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#genius #itself #love #love is #rarer