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I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem. -
By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
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Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
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Bible study is like eating peanuts. The more you eat, the more you want to eat.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
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A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
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All I want is a little more than I’ll ever get.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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