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Trifles Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
- A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape…
- You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's…
- A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear…
More Trifles Quotes
- How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton
- A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. — Erwin Rommel
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the… — Joseph Addison
- We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz
- At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope
- A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley