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• Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Jesus, Reality

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• Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses itself any reaction with regard to itself or its deeds. This virtue differs from and surpasses sincerity. We see many people who are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than what they are; but they are always fearing lest they should be taken for what they are not.

  Francois Fenelon

  Taken, Simple, People

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• Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Heart, Hypocrisy, Looks

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• Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Deeds, Causes, Smallest

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• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  Horace Mann

  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

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• In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

  Oscar Wilde

  Style, Important, Essentials

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.66, BoD – Books on Demand

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• And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.

  Joseph Conrad

  Differences, Steps, Moments

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.112, eKitap Projesi

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• Technique is the test of sincerity.

  Ezra Pound

  Technique, Tests

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• I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and
  without illusion.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Men, Choices

  Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.103, A&C Black

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• It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

  Anne Bronte

  Doubt, Painful, Those We Love

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• The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Heart, Reason

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• I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, Opposites, Hips

  "Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation's fourth season (Part 5 of 5)". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.

  Columbus Short

  Sleep, Night, Selling

  "Discovering Columbus". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• The only real and reliable guarantee for khadi would be honesty, truthfulness and sincerity of khadi workers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Honesty, Real, Would Be

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• However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Distrust, Stills

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• You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.

  Sefi Atta

  Passion, Writing, Overwhelming Desire

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Land

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Good Man, Would Be

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• The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cousin, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, And Love, Able

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1984, Manonmani Publishers

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• These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

  Zane Grey

  Critics, Burned

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• I'm sure that a U.S. citizen, if I try to sing in English, he can feel that I'm not really sincere, there is something wrong. And I'm sure that even in French, they could feel the sincerity more than in English.

  Stromae

  Trying, Citizens, Sincere

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Simple, Men, Perfect

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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• I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Want, Tests, Compare

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

  Milan Kundera

  Emotion, Pathos, Dare

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