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Silence that wins, where eloquence is vain.
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Such was the force of his eloquence, to make the hearers more concerned than h he that spake.
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That besotting intoxication which verbal magic brings upon the mind.
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The art of clothing the thought in apt, significant and sounding words.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far-reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.
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The charm of eloquence–the skill To wake each secret string, And from the bosom’s chords at will Life’s mournful music bring; The o’ermast’ring strength of mind, which sways The haughty and the free, Whose might earth’s mightiest ones obey This charm was given to thee.
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The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object–this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence–it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
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The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the ‘Anglo-Saxon contagion.’
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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them
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The glorious burst of winged words!
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The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
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The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.
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The pleasure of eloquence is, in greatest part, owing to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it – to the magic of sympathy which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
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The poetry of speech.
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The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.
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The spell is thins that reaches The heart, and makes the wisest head its sport; And there’s one rare, strange virtue in thy speeches, The secret of their mastery–they are short.
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There is as much eloquence in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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