As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said… — William De Morgan Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted… — Caravaggio Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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