"And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!"
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"Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true."
"I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence."
"True eloquence makes light of eloquence. True morality makes light of morality."
"Continuous eloquence is tedious."
"Eloquence is the painting of thought."
"Poetry is the eloquence of verse."
"He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom."
"Love and businesse teach eloquence."
"Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence"
"In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner."
"An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand."