A Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

What is conceived well is expressed clearly. — © Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.
There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.
If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.
Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.
The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice.
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
... if you repeat a thought, or say a word, over and over again-not once, not twice, but dozens, hundreds, thousands of times-do you have any idea of the creative power of that? A thought or a word expressed and expressed and expressed becomes just that-expressed. That is, pushed out. It becomes outwardly realized. It becomes your physical reality.
I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
Why is the media doing what they're doing? Well, there are many answers for it. I don't mean to be insulting anybody here. Clearly, the media hates Trump, yeah, and clearly the media's a bunch of leftists and they don't like Trump's policies, and clearly this and clearly that. But there's another factor to this, too, that I don't think can be denied - and I think they're scared to death. Donald Trump is unraveling, bit by bit, major elements of the Barack Obama agenda.
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