Many a little makes a mickle

I would like to share my view on this proverb which had inspired me a lot in my childhood. The meaning of the same goes like this: little things or quantities often make a large thing or great quantity. Look at the ocean it’s actually formed of great number of little drops of water. Great sand dunes are formed from tiny grains of sand. If we save a little amount of money everyday it will become a huge sum in course of time. In short, all great or huge things are formed out of tiny things. This can happen in the other way also. If we lose something little by little, it will become a great loss to us in due course. If we borrow money little by little, we will find ourselves in great debts after some time. Therefore little things are in no way to be neglected. They can often compromise to form something huge. Great icebergs are actually formed out of little pieces of ice. These icebergs can often wreck, & sink a big ship if they crash into it. If we take a handful of snow & let it roll down a big slope, by the time it reaches the foot of the slope the little ball would have become bigger one more than the size of our head. The piece of moral to be extracted from this proverb is, if we patiently and continuously do something, eventhough little by little, we will be able to make something considerably big in due course of time . Likewise, we should never neglect our losses even if they seem to be small, for if we continue to lose, soon we may find ourselves in great trouble.

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