“Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.”

— P. L. Travers

Hamadryad, the King Cobra in Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"
Mary Poppins (1934)

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Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist 1899–1996

Theodore Roethke book The Far Field

"The Right Thing," ll. 7-9
The Far Field (1964)
Context: God bless the roots! — Body and soul are one!
The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.

“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Notebook L (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“Great things to compare with Small.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
Variant: If I may great things compare with Small.

“To compare great things with small.”
Parvis componere magna.

Virgil book Eclogues

Book I, line 23 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)

“Many small make a great.”

John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs

Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there?
POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets.
ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones?”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“Small facts lead to great knowing.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“America is too great for small dreams.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

“Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.”

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