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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“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”
Essay on Burns, p. 15 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
Carlyle generalizes Horace's rule into a principle for every writer: be true, if you would be believed.
Citation: "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, Essay on Burns, p. 15 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q6)
