Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There is no true orator who is not a hero."
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Orators
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Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"It is delivery that makes the orators success."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"A good orator is pointed and impassioned."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Gold were as good as twenty orators."
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"An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking."
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"Time is an illusion-to orators."
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"We are born poets. we become orators."
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"No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself."
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"There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself."
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"God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator."
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