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  • It is the business of little minds to shrink.

    Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”
  • How great in number are the little minded men

    Men   Numbers   Littles  
  • There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.

    Mind   Want   Littles  
    "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.
  • a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

    "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.
  • A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.

    Girl   Running   Daughter  
  • Little things please little minds.

    Ovid, Stanley Appelbaum (2010). “The Art of Love”, p.9, Courier Corporation
  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

    Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”
  • I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

  • Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

  • People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

    Beautiful   People   Mind  
    "Debussy: Musician of France". Book by Victor Illyitch Seroff, 1957.
  • So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

  • What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

    Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  • Little things affect little minds.

    1845 Sybil, bk.3, ch.2.
  • Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

    Life   Wise   Wisdom  
    Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)
  • Why do we continue to breed little minds who can find no recompense for their own failures other than to belittle and mock the talents, even the dress, of others? When will everyone realize that we are all equal in the eyes of God?

    Eye   Mind   Dresses  
  • When I first went on [Facebook], I found there were five or six Creed Bratton sites. It was all over the place. I had to compete with other people saying they were me. It was nuts, so this is nice that people know that if they're gonna send something to me, I'm gonna be with my weird little mind looking at what they have to say. And what they're seeing is actually me.

    Nice   Nuts   People  
    Source: talknerdywithus.com
  • The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

    Respect   Mean   Order  
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

    Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)
  • Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.

    Mind   May   Littles  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books
  • Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

    Law   Consistency   Mind  
  • The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

  • If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

  • A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.

    People   Mind   Littles  
  • There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

    Mind   Littles   Way  
    Max Lucado (2009). “In the Grip of Grace”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates much regarded, and the things of this present life are highly prized, as if the darling was of less value than a clod of earth; an immortal soul, than a perishing body; a precious Saviour, than unsatisfying creatures.

    Jesus   Men   Soul  
    John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4037, Delphi Classics
  • Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

    Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.181, Penguin
  • Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

    Art   Mind   Lines  
  • Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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