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«The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.»
«There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.»
«Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.»
«So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.»
«There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.»
«Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!»
«Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified»
«So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be»
«There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind»
«They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
enforce, in vain, scarce, tongues
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