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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
William Hazlitt
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James Fenimore Cooper
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
Jane Austen
You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
William Congreve
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
Confucius
If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
Thomas Hardy
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George MacDonald
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
John Tillotson
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
