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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Cosmos
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
Fortune
Chinese Proverb

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Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Blame
Chinese Proverb

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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.
Family
Chinese Proverb

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Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom.
Doubt
Chinese Proverb

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I can do small things in a great way.
Excellence
James Freeman Clarke

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It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Complaints and Complaining
Confucius

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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Vice
Confucius

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
Life and Living
Robert A. Cook

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Opportunity
Demosthenes

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The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
Belief
Emily Dickinson

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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Power
John Dryden

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We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
Intervention
Sir Anthony Eden

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Truth
Albert Einstein

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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
Eloquence
George Eliot

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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Greatness
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ability
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The people are to be taken in small doses.
People
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A small family is soon provided for.
Family
English Proverb

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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Hope
Epictetus

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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Action
William Faulkner

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Simplicity
Henry Ford

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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Conceit
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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A small leak can sink a great ship
Things and Little Things
Benjamin Franklin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun