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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all… — Oscar Wilde
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend! — Rupert Brooke
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh,… — Thomas Carlyle
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul,… — Edmund Waller
If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain… — Margaret Mead
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him. — Anne Tyler
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear… — John Keats
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to… — Graeme Goldsworthy
Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules. — George Will
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might. — Phillips Brooks
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. — Gilda Radner
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. — Walter Savage Landor
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within.… — Lucy Larcom
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten… — Alfred North Whitehead
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. — Robert Jarvik
Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer. — Arthur Guiterman
The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the… — Robert Benchley
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. — Mary Oliver
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I… — Flann O'Brien
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction… — William Godwin

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