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"Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all."
"That painter who has no doubts will achieve little."
"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."
"He who considers too much will perform little."
"Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests."
"The parasites live where the great have little secret sores."
"He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!"
"A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death."
"I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more."
"The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour."
"I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to."
"My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster."
"If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away."
"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
"I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher."
"It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices."
"Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all."
"Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind."
"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."
"Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening."
