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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.