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What dire offence from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 54.
Trifles, light as air.
Othello. Act III.
Sc.3. L. 322.
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
And waste the time, which looks for other revels.
Pericles. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 92.
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
A Winter's Tale. Act IV; Sc, 3. L. 26.
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A trifle makes a dream, a trifle breaks.
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Magno iam conatu magnas nugas.
By great efforts obtain great trifles.
Terence—Heavton timorumenos. IV.
. 8
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the
year.
Young—Love of Fame. Satire VI. L. 205.
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| text = <poem>For who hath despised the day of small things?
Zechariah. IV. 10.
TROUBLE
Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.
Trouble rides behind and gallops with him.
BoiLEAtr—Epitre. V. 44
This peck of troubles.
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| work = Don Quixote.
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Pt.II. Ch.LIII.
Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant.
Cicero—De Finibus. Bk. II. 32.
You may batter your way through the thick of the fray,
You- may sweat, you may swear, you may
grunt;
You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule
Should ever be kept at the front:—
Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your
head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke—Don't take your
Troubles to Bed.
I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive
this one.
Complaint of Dear. II. 7. Stoppord
Brooke's rendering in modern English.
Sweet is the remembranoe of troubles when you
are in safety.
Euripides—Andromeda. 10. 2. (Fragm.)
Die Miih'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.
The trouble is small, the fun is great.
Goethe—Faust. I. 21. 218.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly
upward.
Job V. 7.
Curse leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are
silent.
Seneca—Hippolytus. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 607.
Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.
He who tenders doubtful safety to those
in trouble refuses it.
Seneca—Œdipus. CCXIH.
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 59. Sea of
troubles found in Euripides—Hippolytus.
TRUST
The greatest trust between man and man is
the trust of giving counsel.
Bacon—Essays. Of Counsel.
Build a little fence of trust
Around to-day;
Fill the space with loving work,
And therein stay;
Look not through the sheltering bars
Upon to-morrow;
God will help thee bear what comes
Of joy or sorrow.
Mary Frances Butts—Trust.
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
Eliza Cook—Love On.
Trust in God, and keep your powder dry.
Cromwell. See Blacker—Col. Oliver's Advice. In Ballads of Ireland. I. 191.
A little trust that when we die
We reap our sowing, and so—Good-bye.
George B. DuMaurter—Trilby. Inscribed
on his Memorial Tablet, Hampstead Churchyard.
a Dear, I trusted you
As holy men trust God. You could do naught
That was not pure and loving—though the deed
Might pierce me unto death.
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. ILL
Trust men, and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Emerson—Essays. On Prudence.
I too
Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XVII. L. 622.
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Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.
Isaiah. XXXVI. 6.
