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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting...

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Quote by Henry Fielding about happiness, people

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to...

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Quote by Charles Babbage about wealth

It is natural that, after the epic poet has arrived, the...

It is natural that, after the epic poet has arrived, the crude epic material in which he worked should scarcely be heard of.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about poets

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Quote by Francis Bacon about numbers, wealth, celebrity, stars, sky, light, man

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Quote by Charles Dickens about season, progress, night, nature, time

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who...

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Quote by Charles Dickens about charity, pleasure

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he...

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Quote by William Godwin about genius, spirit

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about danger

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of...

Quote by James Joyce about soul, being, good, good luck, love

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