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Rivers from bubbling springs Have rise at first; and great, from abject things. - Thomas Middleton For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I), to Czar Alexander at Tilsit It was possible to live under the regulations established by Sir George [Cockburn], but now we are tortured to death by pin-point wounds. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I), according to Lady Malcolm "Diary of St. Helena" Men are led by trifles. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Remedia Amoris (424) A trifle consoles us because a trifle upsets us. - Blaise Pascal Little things console us, because little things afflict us. - Blaise Pascal The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. - Blaise Pascal A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. - Blaise Pascal, Pensees (VI, 25) Things fit only to give weight to smoke. - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. - Wendell Phillips As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs. - Plutarch At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shows great pride or little sense. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 386) What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. - Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 1) Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. - Proverb, (Persian) A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. - Ernest Renan Trifles we should not let plague us only, but also gratify us; we should seize not their poison-bags only, but their honey-bags also. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Trifles render us miserable, but trifles also console us. - Romainville In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base. - John Ruskin A little, and a little, collected together become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop from an inundation. - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi) Man shows his character best in trifles. - Arthur Schopenhauer A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. - William Shakespeare But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Messenger at II, i) Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii) Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles And waste the time which looks for other revels. - William Shakespeare, Pericles Prince of Tyre (Simonides, King of Pentapolis at II, iii) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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