Answer: kindness
Explanation:
one never knows
how far a word of kindness goes;
one never sees
how far a smile of friendship flees.
down, through the years,
the deed forgotten reappears.
One kindly word
the souls of many here have stirred.
Man goes his way
and tells with every passing day,
until life's end,
once unto me he played the friend;
We cannot say
what lips are praising us to-day.
We cannot tell
whose prayers ask God to guard us well.
But kindness lives
Beyond the memory of him who gives.
He uses various rhetorical means of proving his claims such as appealing to emotions. He presents the case of the King's behavior in such a way that is supposed to elicit an emotional response from the reader and motivate them to support the rebellion. Not only that but it is also masked as common sense so as to make it seem sensible.
You're never going to make it home if it starts raining.