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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Quality, Epitaph

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty, Anyone, Wealth

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Courage, Find

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton

Courage, Alone, Live

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere

Next, Sound, Judgment

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Josh Billings

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Elizabeth Edwards

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan P. Smith

Happiness, Wine, Seems

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone

Successful, Dangerous, Mediocrity

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Time, God

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas More

Idea, Known, Absolutely

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton

Real, Born, Poets

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, Men, Greatness

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos

Life, Fake, America

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
James Lafferty

Art, Knowledge, Times

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
Jef I. Richards

Creativity, Valuable, Agency

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton

Knowledge, Help, Goal

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
George Saintsbury

Time, Long, Him

The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
Milovan Djilas

Living, Become, Times

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