#eloquence

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ↗

— William R. Alger

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ↗

— William C. Bryant

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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. ↗

— William Henry Moody

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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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