#seldom

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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.


Benjamin Disraeli


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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.


James Thurber


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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.


James Thomson


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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.


Arthur E. Waite


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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.


Horace Walpole


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


Alfred North Whitehead


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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.


Alfred North Whitehead


#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.


Charlotte Whitton


#big #deeds #good #good deeds #seldom

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.


Saul Williams


#acquired taste #actual #focus #i #language

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.


Edward Gibbon


#been #despised #except #gift #outward