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Eloquence is about speaking or writing fluently and persuasively

• 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
• Eloquence: Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.  Oxford Dictionary
• Communication,  Brevity,  Beauty,  Elegance,  Style,  Persuasion,  Language

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Eloquence can be a thing of great beauty

• Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal
• As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. Proverb
• The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. Alan Bennett
• Eloquence is the poetry of prose. William Cullen Bryant
• Beauty

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Eloquence is a most useful and powerful skill

• 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 talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command. Joseph Addison
• Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius. Thomas Starr King
• Power above powers! O heavenly eloquence! that, with the strong reign of commanding words, dost manage, guide and master the high eminence of men’s affections! Samuel Daniel
• Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The finest eloquence persuades

• If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. Homer
• Persuasion

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The finest eloquence says only what is necessary and knows when to stop

• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. François de la Rochefoucauld
• To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Continued eloquence is wearisome. Blaise Pascal
• True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. Heinrich Heine

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The finest eloquence inspires action

• The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them. David Lloyd George
• Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare
• Action,  Inspiration

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The finest eloquence promotes peace

• Everything that steel achieves in war can be won in politics by eloquence. Demetrius
• One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. Virgil
• Inner peace

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The finest eloquence comes from the heart and goes to the heart

• It is the heart which makes people eloquent. Latin Proverb
• Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. Alphonse de Lamartine
• Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. William Jennings Bryan
• You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts. Cochise
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The finest eloquence comes from passion and enthusiasm

• The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without. La Rochefoucauld
• There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm. Edgar Allan Poe
• Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Passion,  Enthusiasm

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The finest eloquence is simple

• Eloquence is vehement simplicity. William Henry Burleigh
• Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Simplicity

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The finest eloquence translates truth in an intelligible way

• If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. Victor Hugo
• Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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
• Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life. Alexander Nikonov. Alexander Nikonov
• Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. William Hazlitt
• Truth

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The finest eloquence charms and agitates the soul

• There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. Walter Savage Landor
• Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. John Milton
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Eloquence may set fire to reason

• Every idea is an incitement…Eloquence may set fire to reason. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. David Hume
• Eloquence is logic on fire. Lyman Beecher
• Reason

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Eloquence is about manner as much as matter

• There is no less eloquence in the voice, in the eyes and in the air of a speaker than in his choice of words. François de la Rochefoucauld
• Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence. Francois Delsarte
• It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk. Joshua Reynolds

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Eloquence is as important as content

• Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. Mark Twain

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Eloquence comes from knowing your subject and speaking without fear

• To feel your subject thoroughly and to speak without fear, are the only rules of eloquence. Oliver Goldsmith
• Courage easily finds its own eloquence. Titus Maccius Plautus
• Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When a mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Benjamin Disraeli
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Eloquence comes from emphasis, not exaggeration

• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. William R. Alger

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Eloquence comes from talking about yourself

• When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. Josh Billings
• There is no eloquence without a man behind it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes the most effective eloquence is silence

• Nothing is as eloquent as nothing. David Mitchell
• Silence is ever-speaking, it is the perennial flow of “language.” It is interrupted by speaking, for words destroy this mute language. Silence is unceasing eloquence. It is the best language. There is a state when words cease and silence prevails. Ramana Maharshi
• Often there is eloquence in a silent look. Latin Proverb
• Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves. William Hazlitt
• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper
• Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
• The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. Mark Twain
• Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. Charles Caleb Colton
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Sometimes we need a break from eloquence

• Continued eloquence is wearisome. Blaise Pascal
• Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or… Boris Pasternak. Boris Pasternak

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What we are is more eloquent than what we say

• In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. Stephen Covey

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What we do is more eloquent than what we say

• Action is eloquence. William Shakespeare
• The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently. Marc Abrahams

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Good conversation is not necessarily about eloquence

• Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. Emily Post
• Making conversation

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Eloquence in speech should be combined with discretion

• Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence. English Proverb
• Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon, Sr.
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There is nothing more eloquent than tears

• 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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. Washington Irving
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Sometimes we need immunity from eloquence

• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. Bertrand Russell

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• Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. Ambrose Bierce
• Take eloquence and wring its neck. Paul Verlaine
• Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? Dashiell Hammett
• Eloquence: The art of saying the proper thing and stopping. Francois de la Rochefoucald

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