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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
Nate Berkus
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Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.


Blaise Pascal
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Little things please little minds.


Ovid
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass
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There is nothing, Sir, 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
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.


Tony Dorsett
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.


Arthur Baer
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.


Marguerite Gardiner
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.


Arthur Conan Doyle
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I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.


Paula Cole
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
Patrick Kavanagh
People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.
Roger Penrose
My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
Billy Strayhorn
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
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A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.
Steve Vai
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