#scarce

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#eradicating #excellence #faults #nearly #out

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#best #ever #gives #must #nature

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hate #know #scarcely

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

#enough #hebrew #i #learned #meaningless

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#seldom #spent #vain #words

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#earth #people #scarce #sir #without

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#developing #difficult #electric #facilities #gasoline

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#brethren #god #i #i do #kill