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And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. (Quote by - Bible)

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)

Here rills of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take. (Quote by - William Cowper)

Your Words are like the notes of dying swans, Too sweet to last. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Adam Prevost. (Quote by - Adam Prevost)

Eloquence under a threadbare cloak. (Quote by - Juvenal)

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. (Quote by - Victor Hugo )

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

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. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Little other than a red tape Talking- machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary ELOQUENCE. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle )

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld )

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. (Quote by - Eric Johnston)

Things went as I expected. I think Roberts's opening statement was eloquent. I've seen him in court. But the question for me is who is he. (Quote by - Ted Shaw)

Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton )

How often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies. (Quote by - Henry Melville)

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. (Quote by - David Lloyd George)

Music causes us to think eloquently. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Make no mistake, inside that tall, handsome, elegant and eloquent exterior, inside that, beat the heart of a fierce but principled competitor. (Quote by - Dan Rather)

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

The shadows are as important as the light. (Quote by - Charlotte Bronte)

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