Trifles

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys,And eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

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I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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This is a gimcrackThat can get nothing but new fashions on you.

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These little things are great to little man.

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At every trifle scorn to take offence;That always shows great pride or little sense.

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What dire offence from amorous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

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And many strokes, though with a little axe,Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

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Trifles, light as air.

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Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,And waste the time, which looks for other revels.

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A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

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Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;Small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

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Little drops of water, little grains of sandMake the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.

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Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Changed by later compilers to "make this earth an Eden."

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He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

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Small things are best: Bear little souls to Heaven.

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For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

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A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

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The soft droppes of raine perce the hard Marble, many strokes overthrow the tallest Oke.

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They made light of it.

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It was possible to live under the regulations established by Sir George [Cockburn], but now we are tortured to death by pin-point wounds.

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For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

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A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks.

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For who hath despised the day of small things?

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