Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect… — Homer Copy Share Image
The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
“Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion… — George will Copy Share Image
“Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
He draws us to Himself by grace, by example, by power, by lovingness, by beauty, by pardon, and above all by the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Thus the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple. It is exalted by the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No institution of learning of Ingersoll 's day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence... — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow. — John Suckling Copy Share Image
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Ut mos totus rhetoricus problemati terminus? (When will all the rhetorical questions end?)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence. — Homer Copy Share Image
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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