Truth of a modest proverb

 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

 Some sincerity will serve well in the long run but total sincerity is often detrimental. He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin.

 This is a modest payment meant to demonstrate our sincerity with respect to our international obligations,

 Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

 An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
  G. K. Chesterton

 Sincerity is not a test of truth - It is possible to be sincerely wrong
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

 Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

 For a creative writer possession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.
  George Orwell

 Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

 How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
  Albert Camus

 Let me say with total sincerity that I never said that, and it has been misquoted, ... These are not my words, and I would go to the extent of saying I am not so silly and stupid to make comments of this sort.

 I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
  Henry David Thoreau

 I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours.
  John McCain

 I think that his ability to reach out to people was because of his sincerity in what he was doing. And the truth in which he did it in. He had no ulterior motive. He wasn't trying to be something. He wasn't into gimmicks. He wasn't trying to be a star. He was trying to express himself.

 IMPOSITION, n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands --a ceremony common to many ecclesiastical systems, but performed with the frankest sincerity by the sect known as Thieves.

"Lo! by the laying on of hands," Say parson, priest and dervise,
"We consecrate your cash and lands To ecclesiastical service. No doubt you'll swear till all is blue At such an imposition. Do." --Pollo Doncas
  Ambrose Bierce


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