"Thinking cannot be clear until it has had……" — Henry Ward Beecher

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or… - Henry Ward Beecher

"Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it."

— Henry Ward Beecher

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