Quote by Wallace Stevens
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

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

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Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird. – Wallace Stevens

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

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

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

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Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We cant always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it. – Robert Urich

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Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat. – Proverb

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The less men think, the more they talk. – Charles de Montesquieu

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The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children. – Stedman Graham

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