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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.