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Let him who would move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself. Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart, and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.
Let him who would move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself. Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart, and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.
Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Carlyle
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- Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Carlyle. · page_241
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