The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.
God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
Courage is the rarest of all good traits
To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.
A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
I find shaving in general an utter chore so even removing the hair on the body parts that are on display happens on the rarest of occasions.
The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.
You can be a guy who won 18 majors, but that doesn't mean you'll be a great Ryder Cupper. That's the rarest golf there is.
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey
How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us
Its astonishing.
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Much like the death sentence, I believe, hidden cameras should be used in the 'rarest of rare' cases.
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.
Blood is a juice of rarest quality.
[Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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