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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
 For brevity is very good,
 Where we are, or are not understood.  
 For brevity is very good,
 Where we are, or are not understood. 
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read more
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have 
been throughly made manifest among read more 
 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have 
been throughly made manifest among you in all things. 
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have read more
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
 I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a 
thousand pounds.  
 I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a 
thousand pounds. 
 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of 
speech:
 And not as Moses, which read more 
 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of 
speech:
 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the 
children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that 
which is abolished:
  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the 
same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which 
vail is done away in Christ.