"There is no eloquence without a man..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.”
“Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.”
“Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”
More on Eloquence
“There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.”
“The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.”
“You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.”
More on Authenticity
“What you would seem to be, be really.”
“If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
“When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.”