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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil read more
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their
heads, were like the little images that they place read more
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their
heads, were like the little images that they place in the very
bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up
the church, but are but puppets.
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as
much difference between what he read more
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as
much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in
himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke
Should wear his cross upon the heart.
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke
Should wear his cross upon the heart.
We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious read more
We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem but always what you see.
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem but always what you see.