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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

...chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Pope John Xxiii

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Annie Dillard

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Phillip Brooks

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.

Angela L. Wozniak

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Jan Morris