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.
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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.
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Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
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The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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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.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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