Economy prudence and a simple life are the sure masters of need and will often accomplish that which their opposites with a fortune at hand will fail to do.

Clara Barton
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  1. It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. - David Levithan

  2. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. - Isaac Newton

  3. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. - Thomas Sowell

  4. I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he... - Henry David Thoreau

  5. Sincerity is simplicity. - Lailah Gifty Akita

More Quotes By Clara Barton
  1. I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.

  2. I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done.... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I...

  3. An institution or reform movement that is not selfish must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.

  4. The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.

  5. Everybody's business is nobody's business and nobody's business is my business.

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