#eloquent

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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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My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.


Bill Bruford


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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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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.


Washington Irving


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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.


Aldous Huxley


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The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.


Eric Johnston


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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.


George Washington


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I will go, once I have said what I came here to say. I will never shrink from the anger in your eyes- you can't destroy me. Listen to me closely: the man you have sought for so long, proclaiming, cursing up and down, the murderer of Laius- he is here. A stranger, you may think, who lives among you, he soon will be revealed a native Theban but he will take no joy in the revelation. Blind who now has eyes, beggar who now is rich, he will grope his way toward a foreign soil, A stick tapping before him step by step. Revealed at last, brother and father both to the children he embraces, to his mother son and husband both - he sowed the loins his father sowed, he spilled his father's blood! Go in and reflect on that, solve that. And if you find I've lied from this day onward call the prophet blind.


Robert Fagles Sophocles


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