#sincerity

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. ↗

— Edmund White

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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

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The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#branches #break #dead #green #leaves

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity. ↗

— Benny Hill

#insincerity #show #show business #sincere

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father. ↗

— Henry Benedict Stuart

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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#insincerity #manners #friendship

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

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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all these originalities in her, and to accept them. [...] This naive combination in her of the child and the thinking woman, this childlike and absolutely genuine thirst for truth and justice, and absolute faith in her impulses--all this lighted up her face with a fine glow of sincerity, giving it a lofty, spiritual beauty, and one began to understand that it was not so easy to gauge the full significance of that beauty which was not all at once apparent to every ordinary unsympathetic eye. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#child #love #sincerity #spirituality #woman