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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. (Quote by - Sebastien- Roch Nicolas De Chamfort )

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. (Quote by - Marshall Mcluhan)

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. (Quote by - Alphonse de Lamartine)

O Eloquence! thou violated fair, how thou art wooed and won to either bed of right or wrong! (Quote by - William Havard)

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

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Coe, a knighted exemplar of measured eloquence, does not giggle and break into giddy trot lightly. It isn't properly British. But then the British capital hadn't won the Olympics since 1948 before it defeated a loaded field of major world cities Wednesday: Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow. Sorry, .. Have to catch my mates and have some fun. (Quote by - Sebastian Coe)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says. No, it's not... (Quote by - Graham Chapman)

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. (Quote by - Charlotte Bront )

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. (Quote by - Homer )

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion. (Quote by - Marc Garneau)

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. (Quote by - William Caxton)

Courage is grace under pressure. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

As that dishonest victory at Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. (Quote by - John Milton, Sonnet X )

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