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Topic·Little things make a big difference✕clear

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

A great flame follows a little spark.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Didactic poem

If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big.

Hesiod

Works and Days · 700 BC

★ 3.8

Allegory · Religious literature

One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come · 1678

★ 3.8

Almanac

For want of Nail the Shoe is lost; For want of a Shoe the Horse is lost; For want of a Horse the Rider is lost.

Benjamin Franklin

1752

★ 3.8

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert

Outlandish Proverbs · 1633

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

350 BC

★ 2.2

Almanac

Beware of little Expences: a small leak will sink a great Ship.

Benjamin Franklin

1745

★ 2.2

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