“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.”
C. W. Leadbeater
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Fishing can take you to some of our most beautiful places and give you privileged close-ups of our rarest and most interesting wildlife. It?s also a great introduction to the environment and wildlife for inner city people.”
Dafydd Evans
“One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . .”
Rebecca Harding Davis