Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
Little things affect little minds.
I love those who can smile in trouble.
Little things please little minds.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Small things amuse small minds.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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