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ornaments action manners
Manners are the ornament of action. Samuel Smiles
ornaments modesty maximum
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
ornaments chastity chaste
Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. William Shakespeare
ornaments shame young
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. Aristotle
ornaments sustainability
Sustainability has become an ornament. Rem Koolhaas
ornaments weakness shows
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ornaments oratory
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. Oscar Wilde
ornaments monstrosity certain
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. Jean Genet
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
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 vices amplification
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. Thomas Jefferson
oratory prove knows
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. Thomas Carlyle
oratory persuasion power-of-persuasion
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. Thomas B. Macaulay
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury