• Sincerity gives wings to power.

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  Anonymous

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• Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

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• Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

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• Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

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• The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 61 reads

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• Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 166 reads

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• We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the conduct of our lives is the only proof of the sincerity of our hearts.

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  Anonymous

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• Weak people cannot be sincere.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

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• What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

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• You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

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