#seldom

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#fittest #less #loves #more #more or less

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#born #eminence #late #persons #right

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#how #neighbor #our #ourselves #same

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#eighteen #hours #i #more #politics

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life. ↗

— Tom Kenny

#grasp #just #kind #life #performers

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#majority #minority #organized #rule #seldom

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— George Santayana

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

#enslave #free #instruments #seldom #their

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#content #crown #enjoy #kings #seldom

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. ↗

— J. G. Stedman

#am #amongst #best #case #civilization