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Letter "S" » smallness
«It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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cowardice, cower, cowering, existed, faithlessness, in all likelihood, likelihood, massive, smallness
«Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.»
Author: Jan Morris
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smallness
«The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.»
«The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.»
« . . . the chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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smallness
«Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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discouraged, earthly life, embitter, embittered, embitters, ever so, smallness, splendidly
«Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Understanding
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combined, finite, former, Infinities, latter, smallness, transcend
«Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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accomplishments, cease, despair, forward, go forward, incessantly, Lord's table, smallness, the LORD, utmost
«It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants»
Author: William Cobbett
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smallness
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