Quotes with sincerity

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Lord George Byron Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Ezra Pound Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • William Hazlitt The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Eliot The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Barton The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean Giraudoux The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Oscar Wilde The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Confucius To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Joseph Conrad 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
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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