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How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that f

How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. – Wallace Stevens

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Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. – Wallace Stevens

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing

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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. – Richard Armour

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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. – Albert Claude

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