#clearness

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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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. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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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. ↗

— John Woolman

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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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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. ↗

— Jean Paul

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

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