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Trifles Quotes

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We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
Susan Glaspell

Authors on Trifles Quotes: Ralph Waldo Emerson Arthur Schopenhauer Alexander Pope Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Horace Ovid William Shakespeare Charles Spurgeon Philip Sidney John Lancaster Spalding Friedrich Schiller Blaise Pascal Miguel de Cervantes George A. Smith Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton John Paul Jones Thomas Sprat Wallace Stevens Fyodor Dostoevsky Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Michelangelo George Chapman Emma Goldman Joseph Conrad Susan Glaspell Wendell Phillips Jerome K. Jerome Honore de Balzac George Eliot Benjamin Franklin Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Napoleon Bonaparte William Allingham
2.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Alexander Pope

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.
John Paul Jones

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Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
Joseph Conrad

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A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal

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Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle
Michelangelo

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It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
Friedrich Schiller

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There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One must not trifle with love
Alfred de Musset

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Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
Honore de Balzac

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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Nicolas Chamfort

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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
Leigh Hunt

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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat

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Trifles make the sum of life.
Charles Dickens

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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Wallace Stevens

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Men are led by trifles.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
Jerome K. Jerome

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It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
Wendell Phillips

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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
William Allingham

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Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]
Ovid

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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]
Horace

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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Benjamin Franklin

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Man shows his character best in trifles.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
George A. Smith

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Trifles, trifles are what matter!
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
George Chapman

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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Plautus

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Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
Charles Spurgeon

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Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
Philip Sidney

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Cracks make caves collapse.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
Alexander Pope

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It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
George Eliot

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Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Ovid

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Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ
Charles Spurgeon

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He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
Emma Goldman

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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
William Shakespeare

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nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
Ouida

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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
Martial

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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
William Shakespeare

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
Horace