Counterfeit Quotes

• You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Imitation, Imitating

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• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Fall, Roots

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• Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

  Arlene Francis

  Charm

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Genuine, Difficult

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.400

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• Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Money, Men, Cases

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• Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

  Virginia Foxx

  Country, Fighting, Challenges

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• Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

  Sam Storms

  Satan, God Bless, Curse

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• A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Humble, Humility, Men

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• Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

  Beth Moore

  Enemy, Trying, Doe

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• True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

  John Bradshaw

  Spiritual, Growth, Form

  John Bradshaw (1988). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.154, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happiness, Happy, Real

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flattery, Trouble, Counterfeit Money

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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• Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Would Be, Flaws, Judgment

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• Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough knowledge of the Bible in order to spot bogus religious teachings. How grounded are you in the Scriptures? How deep are your theological roots? How capable are you of detecting false teachings?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

  Charles R. Swindoll (1920). “Conquering Through Conflict”, W Publishing Group

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• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Challenges, Audacity

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.

  Wayne Dyer

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• There is one grace you cannot counterfeit . . . the grace of perseverance.

  Gardiner Spring

  Perseverance, Grace

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• We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

  Berl Katznelson

  Fear Not, Gloomy, Ifs

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• The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Nature, Counterfeit Money

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

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• Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

  Thomas Southerne

  Passion, Heart, Soul

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Real, Smart

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• To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

  Saint Augustine

  Lying, Order, Modesty

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