“Many small make a great.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.”
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
Source: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 13.
Context: In the popular arena, one can tell … that the average man … imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.
“The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
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“For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.”
Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
Sallust book Bellum Iugurthinum
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Bellum Iugurthinum
“Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.”
H. G. Wells book Joan and Peter
Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education (1918)
