GEMS OF THOUGHT
, SIMPLICITY. Simplicity is of all things the hardest to be copied.—Steele. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed to be simple is to be great.—Emerson. In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.—Longfellow. Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness. —Barrow.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys Him. —Thomas a Kempis.
I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. —St Paul.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 8
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