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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. – Bob Dylan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge... – Samuel Taylor Coleridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. – Douglas Adams	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God. – Saadi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced. – Agnes Repplier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. – Indira Gandhi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. – G. I. Gurdjieff	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Be cautious in your intercourse with the great; they seldom confer obligations on their inferiors but from interested motives. Friendly they appear as long as it serves their turn, but they will render no assistance in time of actual need. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person. – Lavater	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods. – Herodotus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.? – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. – Guicciardini	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The fame of good men?s actions seldom goes beyond their own doors, but their evil deeds are carried a thousand miles? distance. – Chinese	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken. – Jane Austen, Emma	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. – Luke Rhinehart	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist. – Joe Keenan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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