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• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Exaggeration Is, White Collar, Emphasis

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• Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Children, Rivers, Mind

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.833, Delphi Classics

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• Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

  Frederick William Faber

  Forgiveness, Faith, Kindness

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Eloquence is logic on fire.

  Lyman Beecher

  Fire, Logic

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• Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

  Thomas Starr King

  Genius, Humans

  Thomas Starr King (1864). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.59

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• Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

  George Santayana

  Art, Republican, Conversation

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Art, Secret, Literature

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• Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

  Edgar Quinet

  Philosophy, May, Philosopher

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• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Charm, Brevity

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• Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Long, Understanding

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Style, Quality

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• Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Truth, Secret

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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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Today, Classroom

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• Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Honesty, Earnest

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dignity, Speak, Lows

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.410

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• There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

  Victor Hugo

  Sovereign, Indignation

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.566, Modern Library

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• The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Heart, Men

  "Critical and historical essays. Biographies. Indian penal code. Contributions to Knight's quarterly magazine". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, "A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton, Touching The Great Civil War" (August 1824), p. 654, 1873.

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• In Silence there is eloquence.

  Rumi

  Silence, Solitude

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• There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Behinds

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• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  Ovid

  Matter, Easy, Conversation

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• Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

  Plautus

  Life, Courage

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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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Color, White

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.618, Library of America

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• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Enthusiasm, Doubted

  Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, Wilhelm Hauff (2011). “The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology”, p.17, Bottletree Books LLC

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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.

  Tacitus

  Flames, Matter

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• It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Poor, Shows, Orators

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.353

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