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• If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Winning

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• What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Organization, Needs, Spirit

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• Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

  Joseph Addison

  Silence, Sublime, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.251

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• The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Together, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Past, Calling, Orators

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• Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Laughter, Speech, Genuine

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Peace: The Words and Inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.44, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

  John Adams

  Stuff, Borrowing, Borrowed

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.639

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• The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Defense, Purpose, Teach

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• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Painting

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• Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

  Richard Cecil

  Simplicity, Vehement

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1824). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character”, p.300

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• Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Soul, Mind, Strain

  Phillis Wheatley (2001). “Complete Writings”, p.115, Penguin

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• My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

  George W. Romney

  Inspiration, Wife, Empathy

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• Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

  Adam Gopnik

  Education, Art, Degrees

  "Life Studies" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• The shadows are as important as the light.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Light, Shadow, Important

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• Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Substance, Taste, Shame

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• Jesus Christ opposed with earnest eloquence the panic fears and hateful superstitions which have enslaved mankind for ages.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Jesus, Age, Superstitions

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1886). “Essays and Letters”

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• A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Army, Borders, Conquer

  Speech to North German Reichstag, September 24, 1867.

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• Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it

  Marcus Cornelius Fronto

  Philosophy

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• Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Pleasant

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Power, Compulsion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women and children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe will lead to such an outcome.

  Barbara Lee

  Running, Children, Military

  "Congress has given Bush a free hand - and that puts more lives at risk". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2001.

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• Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

  John Suckling

  Sorrow, Weaving, Spinning

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• Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Childhood

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.653

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• True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly shown by the case of the Apostles and many holy men, who did not spread themselves out with an empty show of leaves, but were bowed down by the weight of the true fruits of spiritual knowledge: of whom it is written in Acts: 'But when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, they were astonished' (Acts 4:13).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  John Cassian “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

  Mark Twain

  Moving, Heart

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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