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When a man
gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent
and often reaches the sublime.
-- Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist,
Lecturer
They are
eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great
things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
You have such
strong words at command, that they make the smallest
argument seem formidable.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
The eloquent
man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly
drunk with a certain belief.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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The finest
eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that
which delays them.
-- David Lloyd George
1863-1945, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
He talked on
for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
-- William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist
The longer I
live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence.
Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get
influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek
to become a good public speaker.
-- George F. Hoar
There is no
more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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