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No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
quote by George Henry Lewes
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Eloquent Orator
The beautiful vessels,
The counsellor and the eloquent orator are here to stay;
But everyone loves gifts and goes after rewards,
And i am now like a garden without water.
Chains, bracelets and veils;
In the garden of love to respect my muse,
But the eloquent orator and the counsellor are here to stay.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Eyes : A Fragment
How eloquent are eyes!
Not the rapt poet's frenzied lay
When the soul's wildest feelings stray
Can speak so well as they.
How eloquent are eyes!
Not music’s most impassioned note
On which Love’s warmest fervours float
Like them bids rapture rise.
Love, look thus again,--
That your look may light a waste of years,
Darting the beam that conquers cares
Through the cold shower of tears.
Love, look thus again!
poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Mr. Knowitall
They call me mr. knowitall
I will not compromise.
I will not be told what to do.
I shall not step aside.
They call me mr. knowitall
I have no time to waste.
My mouth it spews pure intellect.
And i've such elegant taste.
They call me mr. knowitall.
I sup the aged wine.
Oh i could tell such wonderous tales
If i should find the time.
I must be mr. knowitall
For ideas they come in bounds.
I am mr. knowitall
So spread the word around.
They call me mr. knowitall
I am so eloquent.
Perfection is my middle name
And whatever rhymes with eloquent.
song performed by by Primus
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An Orator’s Complaint
How many the troubles that wait
On mortals!—especially those
Who endeavour in eloquent prose
To expound their views, and orate.
Did you ever attempt to speak
When you hadn't a word to say?
Did you find that it wouldn't pay,
And subside, feeling dreadfully weak?
Did you ever, when going ahead
In a fervid defence of the Stage,
Get checked in your noble rage
By somehow losing your thread?
Did you ever rise to reply
To a toast (say 'The Volunteers'),
And evoke loud laughter and cheers,
When you didn't exactly know why?
Did you ever wax witty, and when
You had smashed an opponent quite small,
Did he seem not to mind it at all,
But get up and smash you again?
If any or all of these things
Have happened to you (as to me),
I think you'll be found to agree
With yours truly, when sadly he sings:
'How many the troubles that wait
On mortals!—especially those
Who endeavour in eloquent prose
To expound their views, and orate.'
poem by Robert Fuller Murray
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An eloquent cock crows as soon as it comes out of the egg.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Don't think you are eloquent just because a fool applauds you.
There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake's tail.
Native American proverbs
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No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
quote by George Eliot
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Money is more eloquent that a dozen members of parliament.
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnake's tail.
Native American Navajo proverbs
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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
quote by Johann G. Hamann
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
quote by Marcus Valerius Martialis
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
quote by Fisher Ames
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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
quote by Thomas Hobbes
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