Eloquence Quotes
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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.
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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.
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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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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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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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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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That form of eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty.
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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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True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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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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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.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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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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For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.
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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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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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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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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
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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.
