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• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Imperfection, May, Should

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• Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

  Ann Landers

  Sacrifice, Class, Manners

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• The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Soul, Taste

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• Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Piercings, Letters

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• Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Wind, Adages

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone.

  Rachel Vincent

  Children, Father, Smart

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.244, MIRA

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• Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Men

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• I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

  George Thorogood

  Mean, Wave, Said

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• Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.

  Jay Asher

  Letting Go, Hands, Mountain

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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• It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

  Colin Wilson

  Christmas, Memories, Thinking

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• I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.

  Francis Chan

  Hatred, Church, Worship

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• How can it fail to smash and shatter the petty provincialism and narrow nantionalism ... making of this world a tragic mosaic of hostility and hate? How can this fabulous new force in the sky fail to serve the hope of teh world and the peace of the world?

  Juan Trippe

  Hate, Sky, World

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• There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

  Anton Chekhov

  Vapid, Mediocrity, Useless

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!

  Charlotte Alington Barnard

  Long Walks, Worry, Influence

  Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”

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• Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

  Michel de Montaigne

  May, Vexation, Stills

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• Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.

  William Henry Drummond

  Worry, Soul, Complaining

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• I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

  Greta Gerwig

  People, Kind, Feels

  "The Funniest Movie Of The Summer". Interview with BuzzFeed News, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Politics, Hours, Advantage

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.247

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• If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to shy away from even the slowest and most detailed analysis of the most unnatural lusts, gruesome tortures, shocking infamy, and disgusting sensual or spiritual impotence.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spiritual, Writing, Views

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• People in Parliament occupy themselves with private animosities and petty quarrels, and think little of the national interest. It is impossible to credit the serene indifference with which they consider events outside their own country.

  William III of England

  Country, Thinking, People

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• There would be very little to dislike in other people if we refused to bring to them all of our own judgements and petty grievances.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  People, Judgement, Would Be

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (1983). “Teach only love: the seven principles of attitudinal healing”

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• The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Prayer, Garden, Office

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• What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Life, Essence, Alienation

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• As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.

  Roger Ailes

  Thinking, Long, Waiting

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• The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Thinking, Wicked

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