Quotes with little

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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Mary Wilson Little It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes.
    Mary Wilson Little
    American writer
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  • Quentin Crisp It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Amelia Barr It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Albert Camus It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jean Rostand It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Seneca It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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