4,467 Quotes About Littles

  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

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  • Author Henry Taylor
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    Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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  • Author Hudson Taylor
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    If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

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