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  • Popularity? It's glory's small change.
  • After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
  • I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
  • Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
  • The plum tree in the yard's so small It's hardly like a tree at all. Yet there it is, railed round To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more Though if it could it would for sure. There's nothing to be done It gets too little sun.
  • I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
  • Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
  • 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.
  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
  • Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld 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.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Stendhal A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A small leak can sink a great ship
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Albert Einstein Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cyril Connolly 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.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Allen Ginsberg 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.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Pam Brown 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.
    Pam Brown
    Australian poet (1948 - )
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  • Horace 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.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alexander Cannon A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.
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  • Comte DeBussy-Rabutin Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
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  • Mother Teresa Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William James 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.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Sydney Smith Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Victor Hugo 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.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bernard Levin 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...
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • James Lendall Basford Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
    Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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