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Simple Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
- A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
- It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
- We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which…
- If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
- Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
- There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains…
- Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
- Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.…
- Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
- Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.
- To be simple is to be great
More Simple Quotes
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry
- Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr
- Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only… — Dave Barry
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams