A Quote about Persuasion
Lesson #4: Different Perspectives
 
Be true, if you would be believed. 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.
 
-Thomas Carlyle
 
 
 
 
Three level guide
 

Level I: Put and X next to the statement(s)which

can be supported buy the words of the quote.
 

___1. One should lie.
 

___2. One should speak from the heart if they wish to be believed.
 
 

Level II: Put and X next to the statement(s)

you can support by facts in the quote.
 

___1. When someone speaks emotionally, we usually listen.
 

___2. This quote is a suggestion as to what one should do if they want others to believe them.
 
 

Level III: Put and X next to the statement(s) which:

(a) can be supported by the words of the quote, and

(b) what you believe or know about life in general.
 

___1. You can't please everybody.
 

___2. Honesty is the best policy.
 

___3. Too much cunning overreaches itself.
 

___4. To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.
 
 

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