Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious just dead wrong.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
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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 of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
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Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.
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The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear?and that these few are alone to be regarded, the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful r
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 'tis fair.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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So by false learning is good sense defac'd; Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools.
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The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is.. The influence and control of the minds of men.
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With books and money plac'd for show Like nest eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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Mortification from a self strength, carried on by ways of self invention, unto the end of a self righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Some people think George is weird, because he has sideburns behind his ears. I think George is weird, because he has false teeth. With braces on them. George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge.. You can't hear him talk.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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