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Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue." (Burke, Edmund - Tolerance)

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Browse Quotations about Eloquence

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.
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
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.
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.


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