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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British chemist
(Attributed)
The New Dictionary of Thoughts (Edwards)

Consistency in regard to opinions is the slow poison of intellectual life.

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British chemist
(Attributed)
In Lord Acton, appendix (71) to Essays on Freedom and Power [ed. G. Himmelfarb] (1949)