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Speech Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
- All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
- The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
- Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
- Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
- The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all…
- Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
- Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous…
- The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
- When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
- Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
- The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
- Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good…
- The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
- An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams…
- Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries…
- Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
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- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
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