#eloquent

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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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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I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. ↗

— Richard McCabe

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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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