Trifles Quotes
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Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
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There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.
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Men are led by trifles.
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Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.
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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
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. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.
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I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world — Death is only an incident in Life.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.
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One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
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I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
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It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
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My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
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Trifles, trifles are what matter!
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A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.
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Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
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Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
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All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
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Men are lead by trifles.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.
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Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.
