Littleness

Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

Second, I think issues that come into public awareness through Chicken Little shouting never lose their Chicken-Littleness even after there is broad public acceptance that the issue in question is important.

The Fat Panic, Health, and Proportionality 2006

Their is besides a general Littleness arising from the incessant

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 December 1780 1973

Envy, of Littleness, of -- of -- of -- of -- I have Reason and Right to complain, but I have too much Contempt, to use that Right.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 April 1776 1963

There is such a Mixture of Folly, Littleness, and Knavery in this World that, I am weary of it, and altho I behold it with unutterable Contempt and Indignation, yet the public Good requires that I should take no Notice of it, by Word or by Letter.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 28 April 1776 1963

Littleness of Mind alone can be grieved, and grumble at what it cannot help, and what it would be foolish to help if it could.

John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

The mean state Greatness of Soul, the excess which may be called braggadocio, and the defect Littleness of Soul.

Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

In consequence of which Bertram would henceforth and forevermore be doomed to Littleness.

Miss Billy's Decision 1912

Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty.

Concerning Smallness 1909

Littleness -- with which is associated the most delicate detail and elaborate finish -- is the mark also of modern Japanese art.

Roving East and Roving West 1903