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He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
Relentless persuasion overbears him, irresistible child of forecounseling destruction.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of ...
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper a ...
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been ...
Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the ...
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
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