#seldom

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture. ↗

— Robert Musil

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Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#how #neighbor #our #ourselves #same

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— George Santayana

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Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript. ↗

— Richard Steele

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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical. ↗

— James Taylor

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