Eloquence Quotes
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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.
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Eloquence is the painting of thought.
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I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
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There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.
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For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
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The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.
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If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
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That form of eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.
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What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
