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1931 quotes by 1326 authors

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,… — Bible
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false… — Lord Byron
There is no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable… — Bill Clinton
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego-all together these eight contitute my separted material energies. — Bhagavad Gita
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine — Irwin Edman
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery… — John Keats
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made by… — Ambrose Bierce
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false… — George Orwell
Some true love turned and not a false turned true. — William Shakespeare
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. — Ambrose Bierce
Gloriously false, a maid famous for all time. — Horace
This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to… — William Shakespeare
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce
And then we went to the end of worlds time with our thoughts burdened by the glory of the lie of this false spirituality of… — Sorin Cerin
Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. — Proverb
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for… — Dale E Turner
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where… — Jack Cade
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be… — Jack Cade
Were the purportings of the Bible to be a revelation false, it would still be the truest book that was ever written. — Augustus William Hare

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