The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almostpreternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Ourlife is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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.
He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
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.
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.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories