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Crime is common. Logic is rare.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
On the contrary, Christian Hedonists are persuaded with Edwards that the only affections that magnify God's value are those that come from true apprehensions of His glory. If the feast of worship is rare in the land, it is because there is a famine of the Word of God (Amos 8:11-12).
— John Piper
You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.
— Mark Twain
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.
— LM Montgomery
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
— David Ogilvy
This was a rare treat: the wonderful sound of memory filled happiness.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.
— Anonymous
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
— Anais Nin
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
— Samuel Johnson