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Letter "T" » trifles
«It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Character,
Trifle
| Keywords:
guard, off guard, reveals, trifled, trifles
«It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.»
«He that shuns trifles must shun the world»
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles»
«How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.»
«I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.»
Author: Fidel Castro
| Keywords:
brightest, clings, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, lighted, miserly, self interest, strong belief, The Flame, trifles
«Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
contracted, insensible, narrow-minded, obsolete, prejudiced, remained, sympathies, trifles, wasting, wondrous
«It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.»
«Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
seeming, submit, terrors, trifles
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