Eloquence Quotes
These are some of the best 'Eloquence' quotations and sayings.
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Action is eloquence; the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears.
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker.
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Eloquence is relative. - One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition, than on the wholesomeness of a medicine without knowing for whom it is intended.
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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
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Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
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Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
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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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Great is the power of eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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If any thing I have ever said or written deserves the feeblest encomiums of my fellow countrymen, I have no hesitation in declaring that for their partiality I am indebted, solely indebted, to the daily and attentive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures, the source of all true poetry and eloquence, as well as of all good and all comfort.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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No man ever did, or ever will become most truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Speech is the body; thought, the soul, and suitable action the life of eloquence.
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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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