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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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• Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Emotional, False Love

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.313, Cambridge University Press

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• Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship

  Alan Hirsch

  Way, Worship, Missions

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2013). “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”, p.93, Baker Books

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• Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul

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• It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Sycophants, Doe

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• Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Expression, Description

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

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• It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine
  simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

  Dallas Willard

  Would Be, Strange, Genuine

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.117, InterVarsity Press

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• Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Beautiful, Lust, Devil

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.73, Moody Publishers

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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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• We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

  Andre Gide

  Order, Ideas, Identity

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• The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pleasure, Mankind, Greater

  Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins (1787). “The Idler”, p.68

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• Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

  Carl Joachim Friedrich

  Tolerance, Atheism, Minorities

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• The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

  Aleister Crowley

  Order, Spelling, Adopted

  Aleister Crowley “Mysticism & Magick”, Lulu.com

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• Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

  Gabriel Vahanian

  Community, Togetherness, Substitutes

  Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.5, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.32

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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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• True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

  Homer

  True Friend, Literature, Moved

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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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• 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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• Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Loyalty, Running, Real

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• Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

  Homer

  Sleep, Profound, Delicious

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

  Vernon Howard

  Frustration, Battle, Causes

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• Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

  Plato

  His Love, Lovers

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.312, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspirational, Real, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.39, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Spring, Years

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Shakespeare's Sonnets & Poems”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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