GEMS OF THOUGHT
LITTLE THINGS. The power of little things to give instruction and happiness should be the first lesson in life, and it should be inculcated cjeeplyt—Russell H. Conwell. Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of human destiny, are little things.— Robert P. Smith.
Seeing that we have to attain to the ministry of righteousness in all things, we must not overlook small things in goodness or in badness, for “trifles make perfection,” and “the little foxes . . . spoil the vines.”—Mary Baker Eddy.
Trifles discover character more than actions of seeming importance; what one is in little things he is also in great—Swift.
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are—Gamaliel Bradford.
It’s just the little homely things, The unobtrusive friendly things. The "won't-you-let-me-help-you” things That make our pathway light. —Grace Haines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 2
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