Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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 lip,s though they cannot speak.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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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