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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams

End, Wanted, Almost

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Else, Excuses

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

Able, Until, Ceased

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

Sad, Times, Touch

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

Good, Great, Same

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Successful, Losses

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

Enjoy, Content, Kings

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

Words, Vain, Scarce

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Anger, Reason

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Best, Business, Wisdom

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Laws, Gentle, Executed

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Great, Human

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Gift, Except

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan

Repent, Convenient

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mind, Humble, Proud

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

Freedom, Thought, Speech

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand

Integrity, Building

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill

Together, Big, Found

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire

Women, Learned, Same

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, Health, True

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken

Fool, Before, After

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Long, Thought, Find

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert

Change, Inside, Awaken

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Age, Men

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Alexander Hamilton

God, Judge, True

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Proud, Grateful, Thinks

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Place, Principal, Occupies

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