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1 3| advice, according to my small model. Men ought to take 2 3| point controverted, is too small and light, not worth the 3 6| as body; and it addeth no small reverence, to men’s manners 4 9| the cause of it in him is small; or if the envy be general, 5 12| shot. If he be thankful for small benefits, it shows that 6 14| rise, be in fact great or small: for they are the most dangerous 7 14| the greater sort are of small strength, except the multitude 8 15| that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, 9 18| refreshed by profiting in small things, than by standing 10 21| are like haberdashers of small wares, it is not amiss to 11 21| he looked back.~But these small wares, and petty points, 12 24| dear hand, where there is small dispatch. The Spartans and 13 24| have been noted to be of small dispatch; Mi venga la muerte 14 27| repair, may not despise small things; and commonly it 15 28| but yet he could make a small town, a great city. These 16 28| those which can make a small state great, and yet cannot 17 28| from being able to make a small state great, as their gift 18 28| and some that have but a small dimension of stem, and yet 19 30| such a composition they do small hurt. For commonly they 20 37| himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will 21 37| the second will make him a small proceeder, though by often 22 39| meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, 23 40| the state be answered some small matter for the license, 24 40| if the abatement be but small, it will no whit discourage 25 44| poets; who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair 26 51| then. So it is true, that small matters win great commendation, 27 51| breaketh his mind too much, to small observations? Not to use