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You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. – Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away. – Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. – Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. – Longfellow	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford. – Thomas H. Huxley	added by anonymous 13 years ago
VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill. – Muhhammad Ali	added by anonymous 13 years ago
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. – The Metro Para pledge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? – Count Oxenstierna	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ability is of little account without opportunity. – Napoleon Bonaparte	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. – Gore Vidal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ambition is not a vice of little people. – Michel de Montaigne	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business – Charles M. Schwab	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity. – Edwin Markham	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

A aculeate

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C epidemic

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