#little

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. ↗

— Richard Cecil

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…and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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It's the heart that really matters in the end. ↗

— Rob Thomas

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Got your fingerprints as evidence all on my body Put your right hand on the book and you were found guilty I can’t wait forever but that’s how it’s gonna be For me they’ll never be Case Closed ↗

— Little Mix

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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s what part of it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let fresh air in, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live for ever in your own private library. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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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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Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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