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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
vices tendencies tempted
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Rebecca West
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Saint Augustine
vices nine penalties
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. William Graham Sumner
vices wells employed
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. William Hazlitt
vices dishonesty murder
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. Laurence Sterne
vices needs prudent
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices. Niccolo Machiavelli
vices sake
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Joseph Joubert
vices sincerity worst
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. Oscar Wilde
amplification madness
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. Margaret Atwood
amplification wealth rhetorical
There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. George Henry Lewes