Simplicity

As to our friend, I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace. Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.

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Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention — purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God,— purity apprehends and tastes Him.

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He sows June fields with clover, and the worldThat never dazzles, and that never tires.

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Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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Do nothing but what is necessary. ... By this rule a man has the double pleasure of making his actions good and few into the bargain. For the greater part of what we say and do, being unnecessary, if this were but taken away, we should have both more leisure and less disturbance. And therefore before a man sets forward, he should ask himself this question, "Am I not upon the verge of something unnecessary?"

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Clancy got a very simple view of the world. Good versus evil. Evil seems to get the upper hand. Good triumphs with vastly superior automatic weapons!

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'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free.

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When true simplicity is gain'd 'Till by turning, turning we come round right.

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I was particularly won over by his sweet disposition, by his general kindness, by his simplicity, and by his friendliness.

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Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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Simplify, then add lightness

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The rose has told In one simplicity. An ancient confidence.

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Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

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My views are near to those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order and harmony which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem — the most important of all human problems.

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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

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I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.

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Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.

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Anselm: Stop being so God Damn humble … You know God damn well that … that humility is defiance … simplicity today is sophisticated … simplicity is the ultimate sophistication today.

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To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

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All religions are incorporated in the principle of Truth, Simplicity and Love.

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The greatest truths are the simplest: and so are the greatest men.

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If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

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To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

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I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

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If you can't reduce a difficult engineering problem to just one 8-1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper, you will probably never understand it.

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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential.

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Meryon succeeded in reaching the heights of his art, and achieved both splendour and simplicity through breadth of vision allied to technical skill.

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I do not dispute that arguments should be simplified to their maximum... but people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind. ...MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify... beyond... requirement. (...I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.)

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[S]implicity is not so simple to attain.

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Our life is frittered away by detail. … Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. … Simplify, simplify.

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Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

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Simplicity is a state of mind.

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A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

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Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

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If our love were but more simple,In the sweetness of the Lord.

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"Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

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God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

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