A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.
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