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• But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Parent, Feelings

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8442, Delphi Classics

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• Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rocks, Ideas, Rose

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.332, Penguin

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• True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

  John Henry Newman

  Spring, Roots, Intellectual

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.165, Aeterna Press

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• Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Best Things

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, Winning, Parent

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• Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Errors, Deceit

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• The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Devil, Saving

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.62

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• The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization... Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.'

  D. James Kennedy

  Children, Men, Race

  "Kennedy Calls for Constitutional 'Firewall' to Protect Marriage". Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, November 19, 2003.

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• Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Monsters, States

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• A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

  Bill Johnson

  Church, Devil, Powerless

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• Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Political

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Devil, Doe, Would Be

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• Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

  Bill Johnson

  Excellence, Might, Kingdoms

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• The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Beautiful, Truth, Faces

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• If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

  George Carlin

  Money, Church, Want

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• They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

  Cornelia Funke

  Cash, Detectives, Left

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• The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment.

  Marianne Williamson

  Enlightenment, Lasts, Should

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.

  Charles Colson

  Successful, Faithful, World

  Charles Colson (1994). “Faith on the Line”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

  Mark Twain

  Speech

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

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• Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Running, Real, Giving

  Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”

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• Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Errors, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

  Ron Paul

  Important, Tunes, Dollars

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• Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

  James Altucher

  Men, Purpose, Fiction

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