False Quotes

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the… — Victor Hugo
We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind… — George MacDonald
And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14 — William Shakespeare
Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed… — Herman Melville
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. — Mario Puzo
You don't want to loose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be… — Rajneesh
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons… — Abraham Lincoln
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves… — Sigmund Freud
Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and… — Leonard Nimoy
...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in… — William Butler Yeats
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of… — Karl Popper
When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly… — William Butler Yeats
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is… — Wendy Mass
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth… — William Shakespeare
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what… — Og Mandino

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