#eloquence

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence. ↗

— John Strachan

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#painting #thoughts

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#agreeable #appreciated #cold #continuity #continuous

Courage easily finds its own eloquence. ↗

— Plautus

#easily #eloquence #finds #own

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#only #orator #poor #shows #talk

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#same #speak #talking #things #two

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#coolness #eloquence #humor #swagger #humor

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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