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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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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 shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
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Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
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