It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
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There is nothing wrong with you that the trifling matter of a brain transplant can't cure.
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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.
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