A Quote by Louise Imogen Guiney
Character demonstrates itself in trifles.
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Man shows his character best in trifles.
Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.
Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.
Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
Trifles, trifles are what matter!
The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
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