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• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Success, Time

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• It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Priorities, Important

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• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Teacher, Art

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Smile, Wise

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• You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Method, Holmes, Observation

  1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'.

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• We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

  Susan Glaspell

  Different, Kind, Different Kinds

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

  Thomas Sprat

  Married, Proportion, Negligence

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• He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

  George Chapman

  World

  George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.70

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• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Truth, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Happiness, Time

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.156

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• In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

  John Ruskin

  Care, Noble, Holy

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.302

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• Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wise, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

  Jonathan Swift

  Names, Action, Fame

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  World, Matter, Inexplicable

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• A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Powerful, Water, Thunder

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• A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Light, Noses, Might

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• As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

  Plutarch

  Hurt, Sight, Evil

  Plutarch (1704). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.58

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• Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
  [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

  Ovid

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• Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Giving, Weight, Fit

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• Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Two, Enough

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• He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Cutting, Roots

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• To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Gratitude

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “Spiritual Warfare in a Believer's Life”, p.81, YWAM Publishing

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• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Blessing, Praying

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• Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

  Philip Sidney

  Victory, Trifling, Contention

  Sir Philip Sidney, William Gray (1829). “The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes”

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• It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Life, Important

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.142

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