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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
-Arabic Proverb
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
-Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
-William Blake
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Sincerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
-Thomas Carlyle
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The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!
-Thomas Carlyle
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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
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Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
-Confucius
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
-William Congreve
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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
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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
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
-George Eliot
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
-Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard, 1733
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A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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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
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
-William Hazlitt
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
-William James
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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.
-Samuel Johnson
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Books about Sincerity
