"O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!"
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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."
"Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."
"I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life."
"She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while."
"If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation."
"Music is split up now into little pockets."
"Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best."
"When frying small fish, disturb them little."
"There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly."
"I know little about nature and hardly anything about men."
"Do not scorn little victories."
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me."
"Buy a cross section of American industry, and if a cross section of American industry doesn't work, certainly trying to pick the little beauties here and there isn't going to work either."
"The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes."
"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities."
"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."
"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
"How long a time lies in one little word?"