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You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. ↗

— Charles Simeon

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. ↗