Eloquence Quotes
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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.
Homer
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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.
George Washington
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
William Cullen Bryant
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For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
Cassiodorus
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From you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.
Martin Luther
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True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Helen Keller
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
Victor Hugo
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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.
William Jones
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If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.
Richard McCabe
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Gautama Buddha