. The value of simplicity; . LICITY It is well to let down our metropolitan pride a little. Man thinks himself at the top, and that the immense display and prodigality of Nature are for him. But they are no more for him than they are for the birds and beasts, and he is no more at the top than they are. John Burroughs,j^ <^ jS^ A mind at peace with all below,A heart whose love is innocent. Lord Byron,^ d^ J^ The Spirit of God creates in us the simplicityand warmth of heart which children have, nay,rather the perfections of His heavenly hosts,high and low being joined together in His mys-teri
. The value of simplicity; . LICITY It is well to let down our metropolitan pride a little. Man thinks himself at the top, and that the immense display and prodigality of Nature are for him. But they are no more for him than they are for the birds and beasts, and he is no more at the top than they are. John Burroughs,j^ <^ jS^ A mind at peace with all below,A heart whose love is innocent. Lord Byron,^ d^ J^ The Spirit of God creates in us the simplicityand warmth of heart which children have, nay,rather the perfections of His heavenly hosts,high and low being joined together in His mys-terious work; for what are implicit trust, ardelove, abiding purity, but the mind both of littlechildren and of the adoring seraphim! John Henry Newman, J^ 4^ J^ I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have itall to myself, than be crowded on a velvet would rather ride on earth in an ox-cart, witha free circulation, than go to heaven in thefancy car of an excursion train and breathe amalaria all the way. H* D. Thoreau, 53.
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