Quotes 21 till 33 of 33.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
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Tis good nature only wins the heart It moulds the body to an easy grace And brightens every feature of the face; It smoothes th' unpolish'd tongue with eloquence And adds persuasion to the finest sense.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
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We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
But search of deep philosophy,
Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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