"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth."
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"Faithfulness and sincerity first of all."
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"It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love."
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"Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay"
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"Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate."
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"The sincere alone can recognize sincerity."
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"Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right."
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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."
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"Teach French and unteach sincerity."
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"In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos."
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"It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain."
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"There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie."
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"The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know."
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"With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions."
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"But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary."
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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."
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"Technique is the test of sincerity."
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"I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will."
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"According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us."
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"Sincerity in sadhna and eagerness to serve is the basis of one's relationship with the spiritual master."
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