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Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – John Lubbock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college. – Lillian Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. – Young	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little – Stanislaus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. – Earl of Chesterfield	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Forgive thyself little, and others much. – Leighton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia. – William James	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. – Carl Jung	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning. – W. B. Yeats	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There would be no great men if there were no little ones. – George Herbert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. – Ernest Dimnet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. – Sir Philip Sidney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others. – Greville	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. – Charles Simmons	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. – Robert Southey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. – Persian	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith." – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to. – Hazrat Inayat Khan	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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