"Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things……" — John Donne

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• Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. — Ezra Taft Benson
• The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. — Theodor Adorno
• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the… — Samuel Johnson
• Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward.… — Dan Barker
• Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget… — Laozi
• In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we… — Marion G. Romney
• Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart… — Charles Spurgeon
• You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a… — Paramahansa Yogananda
• You may imitate, but never counterfeit. — Honore de Balzac

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