Counterfeit Quotes

• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Flower, Fall, Roots

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• You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

  Honore de Balzac

  May, Imitation, Imitating

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• Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

  Arlene Francis

  Charm

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

  Virginia Foxx

  Country, Fighting, Challenges

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• Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

  Sam Storms

  Satan, God Bless, Curse

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• A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Humble, Humility, Men

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• There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Genuine, Difficult

  Samuel Smiles (1873). “Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.400

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• Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy!

  Beth Moore

  Enemy, Trying, Doe

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• The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

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• Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Money, Men, Cases

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• True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.

  John Bradshaw

  Spiritual, Growth, Form

  John Bradshaw (1988). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.154, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happiness, Happy, Real

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

  Berl Katznelson

  Fear Not, Gloomy, Ifs

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• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Challenges, Audacity

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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• The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Trinity

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• There is one grace you cannot counterfeit . . . the grace of perseverance.

  Gardiner Spring

  Perseverance, Grace

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• Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

  John Donne

  Creativity, Creation, Poetry Is

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.498

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• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  C. S. Forester

  Hollywood, England, Emotion

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• Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Criticism

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• The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Nature, Counterfeit Money

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

  Homer

  True Friend, Literature, Moved

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• The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

  Ellen G. White

  Sight, America, Lasts

  Ellen G. White “The Great Controversy”, Lulu.com

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• It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Long, Crafty

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• Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Laughter, Laughing, Mind

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