Quotes with trifling

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  • Lord Chesterfield A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Titus Livy Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Aristotle In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • William Cowper It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • John Andrew Holmes It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Henry Miller Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines -these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Yann Martel When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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