Eloquence Quotes
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Alexander Nikonov
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term `mute music`.
Alice Koeller
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer
Ann Singh
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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.
Alexander Nikonov
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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Joshua Reynolds
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In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Robert Fitzgerald
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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...
William Jones
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Andrew Reiss
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False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Andrew Reiss
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Alvina Tan
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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...
Boris Pasternak
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Adam Prevost
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Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare
