Trifles Quotes
These are some of the best 'Trifles' quotations and sayings.
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A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
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A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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As it would be great folly to shoe horses, as Nero did, with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles.
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Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought, and not unjustly, incapable of greater matters.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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He that has "a spirit of detail" will do better in life than many who figured beyond him in the university. - Such an one is minute and particular. - He adjusts trifles; and these trifles compose most of the business and happiness of life. - Great events happen seldom, and affect few; trifles happen every moment to everybody; and though one occurrence of them adds little to the happiness or misery of life, yet the sum total of their continual repetition is of the highest consequence.
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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
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If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
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It is in those acts which we call trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted.
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Johnson well says, "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
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Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy when great ones are not in the way. For want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak.
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The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.
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The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things.
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