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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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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

  Character, Foundation, Sap

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1871). “The North American Review”, p.189

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• Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

  George Henry Lewes

  Strength, Errors, Weakness

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

  William Hazlitt

  Our Words, Belief, Action

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.27

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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

  Hands, Promise, Enemy

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)”, p.5375, Delphi Classics

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• It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Believe, Long, Matter

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• 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

  Ego, Doe, Belief

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.345, Penguin

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• Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Sound, Inspired, Speak

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.256, Kodansha International

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• Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

  Confucius

  Firsts, Faithfulness

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• No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sacrifice, Reality, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

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• Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Falsehood

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.147

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• Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heartfelt, Religion, Indispensable

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• The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Taken, Men, Practice

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books: Six Essays”, p.339

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• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  Sallust

  Feelings, Tears, Weak

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• Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Loss

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.153

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• He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Journey, Tasks, World

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• An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Inward, Influence, Absence

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.730

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• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Wine, Boards

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.214, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Art, Honesty, Helping

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• If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

  John Tillotson

  Thinking, Men, Quality

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• We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Inspiring, Courage, Speech

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

  Daniel Schorr

  Fake People, Made, Ifs

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• Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, People, Pay

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• Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

  Michael Flanders

  Mean, Sincere, Flanders

  "Song: "The Reluctant Cannibal"". 1991.

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• Sincerity is the way of heaven.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.413, Courier Corporation

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