“ Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell. - Tremendous Trifles. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. - The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. ”
- Louis Agassiz- Copy
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“ It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life. ”
- Alexander Smith- Copy
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“ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ”
- Michaelangelo- Copy
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“ For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots. ”
- Napoleon- Copy
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“ Little deeds of kindness, little words of love; Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above. ”
- Julia A. Fletcher Carney- Copy
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“ It is in trifles, and when he is off his guard, that a man best shows his character. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. ”
- Arthur James Balfour- Copy
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“ God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. ”
- Saint Francis de Sales- Copy
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“ God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. ”
- St. Francis De Sales- Copy
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“ I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance. ”
- Babe Paley- Copy
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“ It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space. ”
- Charles Spurgeon- Copy
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“ A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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