Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds ...

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Little things please little minds.

Little things affect little minds.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

'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.

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

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.

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.

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