"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to……" — Ben Jonson
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."
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174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can…
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
— Herophilos
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech,…
— Hannah More
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education…
— A C Dixon
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What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the…
— Joan Miro
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible…
— George Washington
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