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• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
• Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. — Alexander Pope
• If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. — Dale Carnegie
• An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be… — Dale Carnegie
• Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their… — Richard Baxter
• Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from… — Saint John Chrysostom
• The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to… — Socrates
• An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt
• The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers. — Oscar Wilde
• Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly… — William Hazlitt
• The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths.… — Okakura Kakuzo

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