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Glennard did himself injustice, it was from the unexpected discovery of his own pettiness that he chiefly suffered. Our self-esteem is apt to be based on the hypothetical great act we have never had occasion to perform; and even the most self-scrutinizing modesty credits itself negatively with a high standard of conduct.
Thus have their vain imaginings taken hold of them in requital for that which their hands have wrought. Consider the pettiness of men’s minds. They seek with utmost exertion that which profiteth them not, and yet wert thou to ask of them: “Is there any advantage in that which ye desire?”, thou wouldst find them sorely perplexed.
He cleared his vision of the small necessary unessentials, and stared forth wide-eyed at the big simplicities of life truth as one sees it, loyalty to one's ideal, charity toward one's beaten enemy, a steadfast front toward one's unbeaten enemy, scorn of pettiness, to be unafraid. Unless the struggle is for and by these things, it is useless, meaningless.
Bah the thought sickened him; all the way back to his rooms he was haunted by the sight of Trenor's fat creased hands On his table lay the note: Lily had sent it to his rooms. He knew what was in it before he broke the seal a grey seal with BEYOND! beneath a flying ship. Ah, he would take her beyond beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of the soul
I should not like to see men begin to encourage the recklessness of the desperado, nor should I like to see women affect the brazen abandonment of the Amazon. I only care to see our fellow-creatures rise above pettiness, so that they may accept all God's ordinances with unvarying gratitude.
"Not well, my sister not well; but it will never happen," said Mordecai, looking at her with a tender smile. He thought that her heart needed comfort on his account. Mirah said no more. She mused over the difference between her own state of mind and her brother's, and felt her comparative pettiness. Why could she not be completely satisfied with what satisfied his larger judgment?
His mother had been a downtrodden little woman, who had never understood him; his sister full of provincial pettiness. So he had no very high opinion of the sex. Incidentally he considered horses also as particularly stupid animals, and was capable of flying into a temper when a horse-lover tried to prove the contrary.
Susan came shyly and at the first glance into her face her associates despised themselves for their pettiness. It is impossible for envy and jealousy and hatred to stand before the light of such a nature as Susan's. Away from her these very human friends of hers might hate her but in her presence they could not resist the charm of her sincerity. Everyone's spirits went up with the supper.
Honesty, truth, belief in God, belief in good!" answered Angus, with some passion "Not perpetual scheming, suspicion of motives, personal slander, and pettiness O Lord! such pettiness as can hardly be believed! Journalism is the most educational force in the world, but its power is being put to wrong uses."
He gave a great, wheezy guffaw at all the right things, and was possessed of endless wisdom. He was perfectly disengaged from himself, fearlessly truthful and without pettiness of any kind.
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