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«The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom»
«In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | About: Faults | Keywords: speck, specks
«In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.»
«Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: blot, margin, speck, specks
«What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.»
«From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives»
«In the vast cosmos, man is like a speck. Essentially, there is no conflict between man and creation. J»