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«Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.»
Author: Thomas Adams | Keywords: bestow, bestowing, costs, trifle, trifled
«It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher) | About: Character, Trifle | Keywords: guard, off guard, reveals, trifled, 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.»
Author: Alan Watts (Interpreter, Thinker, Writer) | Keywords: akin, brutish, childish, devils, furious, glorious, maintain, manly, perpetual, prevent, rage, resentment, rising, suppress, temper, The Practice, trifled, trifles, wrath
«It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.»
Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: mark, The Mark, The Mark of, trifled, trifles
«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.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | About: Smile | Keywords: humanity, inconceivable, pathway, pathways, scattered, scattering, smiles, sunshine, trifled, trifles
«Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: revolutions, spring, trifled, trifles
«The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist) | Keywords: indicated, indicates, insensibility, inversion, sensibilities, sensibility, trifled, trifles
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: accidental, advantages, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, commonly, counsel, goodwill, harmony, influence, in harmony, in time, living substance, melodies, melody, practical, substance, substances, sufficient, trifled, trifling, utmost
«A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: magnifies, magnifying, microscope, microscopes, The Microscope, trifled, trifling
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