"A man will be eloquent if you give…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think…
— Bono
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Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
— Thomas Carlyle
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
— Thomas Carlyle
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome…
— Beverley Nichols
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
— Joseph Joubert
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
— Henry Fielding
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When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double…
— George S. Patton
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
— Eiji Yoshikawa
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Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
— Sri Chinmoy
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
— Unknown Author
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