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• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Foul, Publish

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.179

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• Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Thinking, Light, Mind

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Running, Business, Moving

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• There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

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• Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

  Rene Descartes

  Light, Illumination, Soul

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• Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2582, Delphi Classics

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• The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Form, Shows

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.7

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• We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

  Henri Barbusse

  Wisdom, Ideas, Humanity

  "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.

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• The chief merit of language is clearness.

  Galen

  Merit, Language, Chiefs

  Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Historians, only things of weight,
  Results of persons, or affairs of State,
  Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate;
  Laconic shortness memory feeds.

  James R. Heath

  Memories, Weight, Affair

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• As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.

  Richard Whately

  Twilight, People, Tone

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• I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Love Is, Light

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• ...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Speak, Heard

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Humanity has made a great error in seizing on a certain moment, no more intrinsically notable than any other moment and has called it Birth. The habit of honoring one single instant of the universal process to the disadvantage of other instants has done more, perhaps, than anything to obfuscate the crystal clearness of the fundamental flux.

  Isak Dinesen

  Errors, Humanity, Balance

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• I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Believe, Add, Littles

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2012). “Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Early Period (1893-1909)”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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