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“Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.”

Should Littles Life Is Events Concern Impact Neighborhood

Book:The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays

Source: The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays

“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.”

Littles Motivation Consequence Concern Motive Liable Preoccupation

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.”

Men Littles Boys Youth Concern Fats Sixteen

Book:The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2

Source: The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2

“Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”

Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

“We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.”

Littles Body Forget Hair Concern Fallen Contemplation Shrinks

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion