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• Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

  Jack Kornfield

  Rain, Teaching, Cutting

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• Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Speech, Action

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• Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them.

  Clarence Francis

  Energy, Common, Exceed

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• Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250

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• A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Liars, Lying, Pride

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• If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Teacher, Children, Memories

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, translated by E. Lee, pp. 185-186, 1903.

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• Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, United

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• Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

  Stephen King

  Book, Library, Stories

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.

  Davy Crockett

  Long, Chance, States

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 89, 1994.

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• Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first, nor last; it is less shame for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence.

  Francis Quarles

  Silence, Purpose, Lasts

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.80

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• So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Grace

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• Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enthusiasm, Abiding, Generations

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• Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

  Gertrude Stein

  Reduction, Forensics

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “How to Write”, p.386, Courier Corporation

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• To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.

  Lynn Emanuel

  Book, Desire, Identity

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• A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Addresses, Sincerity, Silent

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield”, p.160

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• What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

  Joan Miro

  Silence, Movement, Seeking

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• Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

  Joe Lieberman

  Country, Powerful, Party

  "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Men, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.297

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• The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Eye, Mirrors, Play

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.164

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• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

  Gino Bartali

  Men, Purpose, Stories

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• Whoever has received knowledge
  and eloquence in speech from God
  should not be silent or secretive
  but demonstrate it willingly.
  When a great good is widely heard of,
  then, and only then, does it bloom,
  and when that good is praised by man,
  it has spread its blossoms.

  Marie de France

  Men, Doe, Speech

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• In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Song, Fate

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.146

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• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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