“ Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ”
- Henry Clay- Copy
- 522
“ I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity. ”
- Hazel Lee- Copy
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“ What dire offence from am'rous causes springs. What mighty contests rise from trivial things. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ It is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted. ”
- Louisa May Alcott- Copy
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“ Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is. ”
- Valentina Tereshkova- Copy
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“ It is a small, tiny baby step,... It is bipartisan. We are going to make it a large step, a concrete step for education, by helping it with some amendments. ”
- Patty Murray- Copy
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“ The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. ”
- Adlai Stevenson- Copy
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“ The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ”
- Tom Bodett- Copy
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“ The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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“ All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds. ”
- Dilys Laing- Copy
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“ A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil — but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely. ”
- Pam Brown- Copy
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“ The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not. ”
- C. C. Colton- Copy
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“ If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit suprised. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,corned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. ”
- Colley Cibber- Copy
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“ Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call; She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. ”
- Sharon Salzberg- Copy
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“ Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives? The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness. ”
- Geoffrey Neighor- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
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“ I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 3.6K
“ A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
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