Great men are sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Sorrow makes men sincere. [ Beecher ]
Alas! the praise given to the ear
Never was nor never can be sincere. [ Miss Landon ]
Pardon ever follows sincere repentance. [ Spurgeon ]
Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere;
'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere;
'Tis never to be bought, but always free. [ Pope ]
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II Sc.7 ]
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No resolutions of repentance hereafter can be sincere. [ Proverb ]
Social usages: a respect sincere or feigned for absurd forms.
Convictions that remain silent are neither sincere nor profound.
If hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a hero [ Carlyle ]
Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness. [ Dickens ]
Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. [ Confucius ]
In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are. [ Beecher ]
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. [ Lowell ]
A world all sincere, a believing world; the like has been; the like will again be - cannot help being. [ Carlyle ]
We accuse women of insincerity without perceiving that they are more sincere with us than with themselves.
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Revenge is a debt, in the paying o( which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. [ Colton ]
Since every man that lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal minds what happens let us bear. [ Dryden ]
Sincere wise speech{} (even) {} is but an imperfect corollary, and insignificant outer manifestation of sincere wise thought. [ Carlyle ]
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions, a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]
Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. [ Fénelon ]
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]