A drop of water is as powerful as a thunderbolt.
—Thomas Huxley
Showing posts with label trifles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trifles. Show all posts
Sunday, January 09, 2022
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Post #2723
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances.
—Edward Gibbon
—Edward Gibbon
Friday, January 23, 2015
Post #1735
There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Post #1593
It has been well observed that the misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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