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Letter "D" » deceits
«Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.»
«It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.»
Author: Noel Coward
(Actor, Composer, Playwright)
| Keywords:
and how, deceit, deceits, discouraging, honesty, shocked
«There is a smile of love,And there is a smile of deceit,And there is a smile of smilesIn which these two smiles meet.»
«Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: / That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: / Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: / Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.»
«They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.»
«Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.»
«Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.»
«He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.»
«One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
built in, deceit, deceits, in the air, One House
«During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Truth
| Keywords:
deceit, deceits, revolutionaries, revolutionary, telling, universal
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