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• If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, War, Sleep

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.209, Discovery House

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• Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if you had never set foot in Rwanda, Fossey, you pain-in-the-ass saint, I do not believe in prayers or souls, but I will pray for your soul, I will remember you for all of my days, in gratitude for that moment by the graves when all I felt was the pure, cleansing sadness of returning home and finding nothing but ghosts.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Gratitude, Strong, Prayer

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• It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Ignorance, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

  Orson Scott Card

  Integrity, Cutting, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.790, Macmillan

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• Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Deceiving

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• Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.

  Tobsha Learner

  Memories, Glory, Pleasure

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• One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Son, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Thinking, Self, Reason

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• Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.

  Isocrates

  Men, Risk, Favors

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Deceiving, Sincere

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• None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

  Louis MacNeice

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.147, Faber & Faber

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• Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

  A. E. Housman

  Hope, Lying, Believe

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Husband, Men, Stories

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• It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Hypocrite, Simple, Men

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• Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

  Criss Jami

  Jobs, Laughter, Heart

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

  Glen Hansard

  Girl, Cynical, Joy

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• If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or sickness (from which none are exempt,) overtakes you, or for the distressed of your race, what a heaven of happiness you would have created on earth: ye would now be an ornament to your sex, and ages to come would call you blessed. But it is in vain to try - a priest-ridden female is lost to reason. Why? because she has surrendered her reason to the ... missionaries ... the orthodox; they are the grand deceivers.

  Anne Royall

  Sex, Blessed, Race

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• Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

  Hetty King

  Memories, People, Acting

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• Religion, which true policy befriends,
  Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends,
  Is by that old deceiver's subtle play
  Made the chief party in its own decay,
  And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast
  Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

  Katherine Philips

  Party, Destiny, Men

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• Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

  Kay Boyle

  Drinking, Alcoholism, One Thing

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• Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

  Luther Burbank

  Religious, Mean, Men

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• People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

  Iris Murdoch

  Marriage, Liars, Self

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Night, Men, Decay

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 4, l. 551

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• There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.

  Ted Haggard

  Teacher, Selfish, Communication

  "Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century". Book by Ted Haggard, 2002.

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• The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life.

  Ted Haggard

  Liars, Responsibility, Dark

  "Haggard admits 'sexual immorality,' apologizes" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. November 5, 2006.

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