Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
There are two types of men: the great and the small.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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