The manners, which are neglected as small things, are often those which decide men for or against you.
The world considers eccentricity in great things genius: in small things, folly.
A constant fidelity in small thingsis a great= 25 =and heroic virtue.
It was not George Washington writing from Mount Vernon, but the President, who represented the whole country, pointing out to the people of Boston that the day of small things and of local considerations had gone by.
In great affairs he knew how to spare himself the details to which others could attend as well as he, and yet he was in no wise a despiser of small things.
In life generally, moreover, insmall things and in large, extremes do have the habit of meeting.
In small thingsand in great consciousness transforms or refracts.
In small things and in great consciousness marks a moment of poise between an impulse to do something, and more or less distinctly recognized conditions or relations that would put restraint upon the doing of it.
Little by little does the husbandman cast the precious seed into the earth, and drop by drop comes the genial shower upon the green herb, yet who does not despise the day of small things?
The essence of The Ring and the Book is that it is the great epic of the nineteenth century, because it is the great epic of the enormous importance of small things.
Unmeaning and muddle-headed tyranny in small things, that is the thing which, if extended over many years, is harder to bear and hope through than the massacres of September.
They have all become terribly impressed with and a little bit alarmed at the mysterious powers of small things.
We are speaking here of small things, it must be remembered--of little attempts, little sketches, a little world.
Hawthorne, however, was an inveterate observer of small things, and he found a field for fancy among the most trivial accidents.
I have said that Hawthorne was an observer of small things, and indeed he appears to have thought nothing too trivial to be suggestive.
Discipline is necessary everywhere, but the thing is to learn while you are young to carry it out in small things, so that you would be able to do so when it comes to your turn to do it in a great difficulty or danger.
Therefore, even in small things, get yourself into the habit, of obeying orders whether or not you like doing it.
Perhaps this is to say that there can be no small things in the nursing service of God.
Small things are of consequence--small things are of no consequence; we say this often to ourselves and to each other.
A swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general.
To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
Ay, as good a head for affairs as mine, and I think no small thingsof mine own abilities.
In a new land least of all can we afford to despise the day of small things.
In the practical pursuit of our high aim, let us never lose sight of it in the slightest instance; for it is more by a disregard of small things, than by open and flagrant offenses, that men come short of excellence.
His omnipotence did not disdain the small things of life; and even while revealing His infinite power to the multitude, he taught the pregnant lesson of carefulness, of which all stand so much in need.
The greatest men are not those who "despise the day of small things," but those who improve them the most carefully.
But who are they that "despise the day of small things?
As for the little Japanese pipe:-- I cannot think that its form and dimensions simply evidence the Japanese fondness for "small things.
Civilization is full of deadly perils in small things,--isn't it?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
