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 Yet through delivery orators succeed,
 I feel that I am far behind indeed.
  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag read more 
 Yet through delivery orators succeed,
 I feel that I am far behind indeed.
  [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck,
   Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.] 
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
 The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; 
the Rhetorician can prove that he ought read more 
 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. 
 The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest 
sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.  
 The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest 
sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. 
 The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they 
are, as it were, a natural art, the rules read more 
 The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they 
are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are 
infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive 
than the most eloquent without it. 
 You'd scarce expect one of my age
 To speak in public on the stage;
  And if I read more 
 You'd scarce expect one of my age
 To speak in public on the stage;
  And if I chance to fall below
   Demosthenes or Cicero,
    Don't view me with a critic's eye,
     But pass my imperfections by.
      Large streams from little fountains flow,
       Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
 For rhetoric, he could not ope
 His mouth, but out there flew a trope.  
 For rhetoric, he could not ope
 His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 
 Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of 
natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.  
 Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of 
natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.