SINCERITY.
Sincerity is one of those priceless inborn gifts that make their possessors sought after by all right-thinking people—on condition, however, that they are also endowed with judgment. For there are innumerable things, good in themselves, that may become baneful unless said or done in their proper time and place. •Some people carry naivette to the point of confusing sincerity with “candour,” bub whereas the sincere one will remain dumb rather than damage a friend, the “candid” one will never lose an opportunity of acting the “enfant terrible” in order to be. the teller of the truth—more especially when silence would have, been golden. Not impossibly, this quality of sincerity may he called the warp and woof of a man’s nature; the canvas on which, if he is an artist, such reflect the purity of his mind. Even those of us who are conscious of alloys in our composition can largely eliminate the baser of- them if only we have sufficient courage and keep our standards in full view.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1928, Page 4
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169SINCERITY. Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1928, Page 4
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