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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

Topics: Any Appear Appears Art Color Eloquence Fools Gift Making White

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Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

~Austin Clarke

Topics: Brings Century Claim Close Closely Critics Eighteenth Eloquence English Epoch Found Great Heard Him His Later Least Lyrical Lyrics Music Occasion Regarded Sense Tradition Tried Which Work

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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Always Eloquence Everything Fortuitous Good Hard Hard Work Keep Mind Mix Personalized Practice Relations Social Social Relations Timing Work Your

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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

~Ben Jonson

Topics: Eloquence Same Speak Talking Things Two Well

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

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Acquire Citizens Democracy Eloquence Immunity Importance Utmost

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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Eloquence Painting Thoughts

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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

~Blaise Pascal

Topics: Abandoned Agreeable Appreciated Cold Continuity Continuous Eloquence Everything Get Grandeur May Must Unpleasant Warm

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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

Topics: Address Affections Desires Eloquence Entirely Highest Itself Leaves Little Pitch Reason Reflection Room Understanding Willing

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The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

~David Lloyd George

Topics: Done Eloquence Finest Gets Things Which

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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American Appealed Both Celebrated Colonists Common Common Sense Creation Critical Despised Eloquence Events French He His Independence Long Pamphlet Present Republic Sense States Thomas Through Time Toward Traveled United United States

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