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oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory matter politician
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. Aldous Huxley
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory firsts action
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action. Plutarch
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
oratory speech firsts
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
vices moral virtue
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. Charles Caleb Colton
vices virtue pardon
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. William Shakespeare
vices virtue deceiving
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Juvenal
vices popularity
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
vices photograph vice-versa
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. Diane Arbus
vices world tolerate
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. Arthur Helps
vices
Vice is basically the love of failure. Elfriede Jelinek
vices thee poor-richard
Let thy vices die before thee. Benjamin Franklin
vices morality virtue
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other. David Hume
amplification wealth rhetorical
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. George Henry Lewes
amplification madness
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. Margaret Atwood