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• There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Loyalty, Betrayal

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.291, Paradise Publishing

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• There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Class, Strange

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.411, Modern Library

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• Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

  Mary Alice

  Life, Happy, People

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• Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Silence, Safe, Silent

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love You, Love Is, Self Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be possible to understand one another? Is real communication possible if word and language betray us every time? Shall, in the end, only the language of tanks and guns prevail and not human reason and understanding?

  Joost Meerloo

  Time, Real, Communication

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• 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!

  Walter Scott

  Love, Revenge, Fate

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.95

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• Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Faithful, Mind

  Max Lucado (2013). “Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A single word often betrays a great design.

  Jean Racine

  Writing, Design, Single Word

  "Athalie". Book by Jean Racine, II. 6, 1691.

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• Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Doe

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Secret, Midst

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• If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Democracy, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.27, Rajpal & Sons

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• Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

  George Washington

  Real, War, Enmity

  George Washington (2008). “George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior: ...And Other Important Writings”, p.175, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

  James Madison

  Men, Hands, People

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.255

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• The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Exercise, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.351, Coventry House Publishing

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• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Power, Self, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 85, 1799.

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• Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

  Greg Koukl

  Reality, Trying, Deny

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• And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Blue, Self, Ideas

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• Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

  Channing Tatum

  Sometimes, Thongs

  "'Magic Mike' Star Matthew Mcconaughey: 'Trusting A Thong Is A Huge Leap Of Faith'". Interview with Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 24, 2012.

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• Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

  Charles M. Blow

  Conviction

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• At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.

  John McCain

  Done, Public Trust

  "Panel Analyzes Times/McCain Story". "FOX News Special Report" with Brit Hume, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 21, 2008.

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• Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

  Anne Bronte

  Betrayal, Eye, Heart

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.150, Diversion Books

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Betrayal, Shapes

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.90

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