Quotes by eloquence

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  Abraham Cowley
  English poet

  

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  We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine,
  But search of deep philosophy,
  Wit, eloquence, and poetry;
  Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine.
  Source: On the Death of Mr. William Harvey; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  English writer and poet 1810-1889

  

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  Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 1842-1914

  

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  Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.