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“Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.”

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Thomas Gray, a prominent English poet, was born on December 26, 1716, in London, and died on July 30, 1771. He is considered one of the representative figures of 18th-century English literature, known for his lyric poetry and satirical works. more

“It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.”

Ifs May Book Language Difficult Simple Audience Effects Produce Difficulty Series Starting Simplicity Conclusion Dependent Constructs Starting Point Predecessors Inference

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.”

Men Trying Looks Book Problem Evil Simple Lord Devil Depth Simplicity Puzzles Crooks

Author:Robert Burns

“What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.”

Simple Poor Music Poet Simplicity Appearance Tales Colour Prose

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.”

Want Book Matter Natural Simple Fashion Ordinary Simplicity Artifice

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.”

Common Rich Simplicity Common Sense Saving Sublime

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

Truth Given Christ Greatness Goodness Standards Simplicity Goodness And Truth

Book:War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel

Source: War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel

“Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.”

Made Would Be Poetry Simple Taught Fine Simplicity Passionate Plato Precedent Sensuous

Author:John Milton

“Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."”

Littles Said Differences Simple Kindness Simplicity Great Things Simple Things

Author:Joe J. Christensen

“I am a simple man and I want simple answers.”

Men Want Simple Answers Simplicity Simple Man

Author:Howard Aiken

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