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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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• No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

  David Brainerd

  Profound, Soul, Able

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• Eloquence is the painting of thought.

  Blaise Pascal

  Painting

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

  Marcus Cornelius Fronto

  Philosophy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

  David Hume

  Teacher, Passion, Reflection

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.127, tredition

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• I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

  Marc Garneau

  Eloquent

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• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Secret, Excellence

  John Ruskin (1868). “Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious”, p.155

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• That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it

  Hannah More

  Art, Women, Silence

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.345

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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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