Seldom Quotes
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
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The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.
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Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
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Power is power. Those who hold it seldom remember where they came from.
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There is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
