Top Trifling Quotes
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Potter Webb
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.
Edward Hicks
Beatrice Potter Webb 
Franklin Pierce 
John Strachan 
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Sarah Josepha Hale All Trifling Quotes
If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
Beatrice Potter Webb 
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Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
Franklin Pierce
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind.
Edward Hicks
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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.
Henry Miller
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Andrew Holmes
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At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
John Strachan
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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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