"If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life."
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"Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature."
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"When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United."
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"Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk"
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"Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all."
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"Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture."
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"Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture."
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"Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity."
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"Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires."
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"Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity."
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"For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things."
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"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage."
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"Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any."
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"The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream."
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"But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness."
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"My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures."
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"The rule is to carry as little as possible."
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"To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?"
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"The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom."
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"As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth."
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