People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
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Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence
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[There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense.
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Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine
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Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art.
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can't you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? And if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man (Jesus Christ) hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he?
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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 every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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FEAR is an acronym in the English language for False Evidence Appearing Real
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear
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What signifies protesting so against flattery! When a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know; if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion; if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
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There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving us when we cross into the shade.
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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.
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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
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Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
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If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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