![]() ![]() Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ![]() Words and acts out of anger destroy many a family and relations. A small leak may sink a great ship, and a trifling escape of gas, if neglected, may blow up your house. Small things are often more dangerous than big things, for they can get in through small openings. Falling of apple from tree insignificant enough yet led to the discovery of the law of gravitation. ![]() It was a little thing to do, but its result was the freedom of America from the yoke of England and the formation of the United States. We will remember in English history that Parliament resolved to put a duty on the tea received into the American ports. Three thousand six hundred and fifty facts are not a small thing. Deepest snow-fall came down one flake at a time. Great things are made up of little things. Over again, a little sleep, a little food, a little exercise. A little sleep, a little food, a little exercise. See how they grow by repetitions of natural processes - constant repetitions. Is it not by little and little the frame grows from its first beginning? Take them after birth. How do humans grow? Of body, mind, heart, and character. So it is with the habits of life, good or bad here a little and there a little, as trifling as they seemed at first, they become at last such mighty and unconquerable affairs. And what is a cable made of? Ropes coiled over ropes, and every rope made out of little threads. How great some ships are! What holds the mighty anchor which holds the ship in a storm? A cable. It seems to be unmanageable by its vastness, and it is also impelled by driving storms. Attend to the little things, and we need not be anxious about the greater ones. Little things deal with reality, without any show and what we call “little things” are often much greater than what we call the great ones, and therefore have much larger consequences. The world turns on small hinges, but for great things, we brace ourselves up and make exceptional efforts. Little things are a better test of character than great things. Real success in self-government is not the waiting for some special occasion to exert ourselves, but doing the best that can be done in the circumstances of everyday life. Thus in the architecture of the world, and in the conduct of its moral affairs, trifles are the mortar and the nails. In a great palace, we think of the marble and the stone, the cedar, and the iron, but who thinks of the mortar and the nails? And yet, in the architecture, mortar and nails are as important as pillars and columns and beams. Ah! How important are little things? The unnoticed things are the life-blood of the world. ![]()
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