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Simple Quotes - Page 193

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.256, University of Georgia Press

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.117, Courier Corporation

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.215, Harvard University Press

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.85, U of Nebraska Press