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“O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.”

Long Past Simple Wise Fate Deeds Manners Sublime Wanderers

Author:Mortimer Collins

“One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things youve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

Wanted Simple Wise One Day Wake Up Extraordinary More Time Simple Things Extraordinary Things

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”

Men Dream Able Difficult Simple Wise Extraordinary Your Dreams Things In Life Simple Things Alchemist Love Simple Things In Life Personal Legend

Book:The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition

“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”

“Something that is said with the word “YOU” is truly heard by a very few and, that too, listened only of someone who leads a very simple life and regularly says the things refreshingly new because “You” has a tone and texture of an ADVICE, which everyone tries to give than take from others as almost all consider themselves to be WISE.”

Giving Trying Said Simple Wise Heard Advice Tone Simple Life Texture Being Wise

Author:Anuj

“For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.”

Problem Wisdom Simple Wise Solutions Elegant Elegant Solutions

Author:Ellet J. Waggoner

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

Men Use Simple Teach Study Wise Admire Observation Crafty Simple Man

Book:The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

Source: The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”

Men May Art Reason Simple Pleasure Wise Ambition Agree Profit Delight Witty Wit Accomplishment Faculty Sensible Accompany Exertion

Book:The observer

Source: The observer

“They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.”

Ifs Giving Heart Mean Littles Real Enough Belief Simple Teach Wise Dog Return Offers Late Models Mirrors Tricks Too Late Imaginary Humane Humane Society

Author:Marjorie Garber

“The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don't. It's just that simple.”

World Bigs Opportunity Simple Wise Offers Odds

Author:Charlie Munger

“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.”

Men Able Easy Simple Wise Achieve Discipline Pages Ugly Dull Realising Capture Vulgar Transparent Typography Ostentation

Author:Beatrice Warde