Definition of rarely

"rarely" in the adverb sense

1. rarely, seldom

not often

"we rarely met"

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Quotations for rarely

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [ Ariosto ]

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. [ Schiller ]

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. [ Petronius Arbiter ]

Agreeable advice is rarely useful advice. [ Massillon ]

Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly. [ Proverb ]

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits. [ Goethe ]

Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. [ Guicciardini ]

The hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. [ Horace ]

Words are like leaves, and when they most abound
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. [ Alexander Pope ]

Men love little and often, women much and rarely. [ Basta ]

We rarely confess that we deserve what we suffer. [ Quesnel ]

Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. [ Basta ]

Age is rarely despised but when it is contemptible. [ Johnson ]

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law. [ Mosea Crowell ]

Whosoever engages in many pursuits, rarely succeeds in one. [ Proverb ]

Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it. [ Petrarch ]

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as a leader. [ Arthur Helps ]

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure. [ Mme. Roland ]

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind. [ Juvenal ]

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. [ Mme. Roland ]

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice. [ Voltaire ]

Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper. [ A. Helps ]

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are incompatible. [ Bovee ]

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. [ Burke ]

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. [ Juvenal ]

He whom fortune has never deceived rarely considers the uncertainty of human events. [ Livy ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

Rarely does punishment, with halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his flight. [ Horace ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Men very rarely put off the trappings of pride till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet. [ Clarendon ]

The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions. [ Lander ]

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them, rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. [ Coleridge ]

Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface. [ Mrs. Balfour ]

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature an impossibility. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Eloquence may be found in conversation and all kinds of writings; it is rarely where we seek it, and sometimes where it is least expected. [ La Bruyere ]

We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. [ Holmes ]

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]

Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare. [ Coleridge ]

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Reputation is rarely proportioned, to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit, they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed. [ St. Evremond ]

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. [ Coleridge ]

We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. [ La Bruyère ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. [ Holmes ]

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. [ Colton ]

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other will generally become bankrupt. [ Wayland ]

Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [ Bacon ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

rarely in Scrabble®

The word rarely is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters rarely:

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rarely in Words With Friends™

The word rarely is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters rarely:

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Words within the letters of rarely

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