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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
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking. — Benjamin Franklin
- To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens
- The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates
- Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we… — John Stuart Mill
- I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend — John Gresham Machen
- Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare
- There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an… — Justus von Liebig
- Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my… — Harry Gordon Selfridge
- Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him… — Rene Descartes
- We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. — William Shakespeare