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• Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

  Mason Cooley

  Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

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• We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Believe, Recognition

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• Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  Simple, Two, Virtue

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Thinking, Life Is Like, Trying

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• An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

  Criss Jami

  Funny, Hater, Winning

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Soul, Pouring

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1846, Delphi Classics

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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 Williams

  Would Be, Half, World

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Sincerity, Persons

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• Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Communication, Patriotic, Political

  "asic Public Speaking". Book by Paul L. Soper, p. 12, 1963.

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• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

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• There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips, will be the cause of bringing absolute joy and happiness to you. Two words that will create miracles in your life. Two words that will wipe out negativity. Two words that will bring you abundance in all things. Two words which, when uttered and sincerely felt, will summon all the forces and vibrations in the Universe to move all things for you. The only thing standing between you, happiness, and the life of your dreams is two words THANK YOU!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prison, Pardon

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

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• Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

  Mark Twain

  Motivation, Integrity, Emotional

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.22, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sincerity is the way to heaven; to think how to be sincere is the way of man.

  Mencius

  Men, Thinking, Heaven

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.179

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• All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

  Arnold Bennett

  Funny, Mistake, Done

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Human Machine: Human Understanding”, p.44, 谷月社

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• Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Would Be, Politics, Charlatans

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Practice, Needs

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Weak people cannot be sincere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Weakness, Sincerity

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Honesty, Lying, Believe

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• Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Inspiration, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Affection, Ghost, Sincerity

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• With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions. The Vaishnavas will realize God, and so will the Saktas, the Vedantists, and the Brahmos. The Mussalmans and Christians will realize Him too. All will certainly realize God if they are earnest and sincere.

  Ramakrishna

  Christian, Realizing, Sincerity

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Best Things, Persons

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• How can we lose when we're so sincere?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Loses

  Charles M. Schulz (2009). “Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years”, p.106, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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