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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 7 (December 15, 1926)

Sincerity

Sincerity.

There is nothing which will add so much to one's power as the consciousness of being sincerely genuine. If your life is a perpetual lie, if you are conscious that you are not what you pretend to be—that you are really a very different person from what the world regards you—you are not strong. There is a restraint, a perpetual fighting against the truth going on within you, a struggle which saps your energy and warps your conduct. If there is mud at the bottom of your eye, you cannot look the world squarely in the face. Your vision is not clear. Everybody sees that you are not transparent. There is a cloudiness, a haze about your character which raises the interrogation point wherever you go. Character alone is strength; deceit is weakness; sham and shoddy are powerless; only the genuine and the true are worth while.

Come, loving hearts, come, open hands, with
bounty warm and wide;
Come, lend our struggling friends a lift till
the turning of the tide.

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