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True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. -- Homer
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. -- Sydney J. Harris
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. -- Hosea Ballou
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. -- Edmond de Goncourt
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
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
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
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
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
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
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. -- Honore de Balzac
Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all. -- Arlene Francis
There is one grace you cannot counterfeit . . . the grace of perseverance. -- Gardiner Spring
With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits. -- Julie Krone
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. -- Steven Pressfield
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were -- John Donne
Anything God does, the enemy tries to counterfeit. We have to be on guard against the enemy! -- Beth Moore
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. -- Werner Herzog
Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell. -- Steven-Elliot Altman
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
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
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. -- Steven Pressfield
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
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future. -- James Salter
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future. -- Nick Turse
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. -- Amiri Baraka
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money. -- Voltaire
If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated. -- Ed Royce
Only counterfeit is genuine these days. -- Junaid e Mustafa
The counterfeit trinity is me, myself, and I. -- Edwin Louis Cole
When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom. -- Wayne Dyer
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death -- Homer
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth. -- Barbara Mertz
A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit. -- Bill Johnson
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature. -- Honore de Balzac
The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit. -- Ron Paul
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion. -- Gabriel Vahanian
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. -- John Dryden
...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... -- James Russell Lowell
Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom... -- John Milton
Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. -- John Milton
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life. -- David Lloyd-Jones
Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship -- Alan Hirsch
The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. -- Samuel Johnson
We must know how to discern between God's truth and the devil's counterfeit. -- Sunday Adelaja
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We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit. -- Berl Katznelson
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life. -- Timothy Keller
An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life. -- D. J. Enright
When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit. -- Idries Shah
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. -- Andre Gide
There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not -- T.F. Hodge
The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God. -- Jonathan Edwards
Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms. -- Diane de Poitiers
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit. -- Dallas Willard
If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church. -- George Carlin
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. -- Mark Twain
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. -- Plato
The last thing we should do is allow ourselves to be infantilized by a counterfeit version of enlightenment. -- Marianne Williamson
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit. -- Saint Augustine
We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.) -- Charles de Leusse
Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks. -- Richard J. Mouw
Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else. -- Dale Carnegie
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. -- Lord Byron
The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud. -- Cher
They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all. -- Cornelia Funke
Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit. -- Neale Donald Walsch
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
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. -- Thomas Southerne
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion. -- William Shakespeare
Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds. -- Jay Leno
If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish. -- Jerry Falwell
The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit. -- William J. Seymour
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
Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature. -- Laozi
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man. -- Thomas Paine
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel. -- Hafez
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers. -- John Henry Newman
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends. -- B. F. Skinner
If I could make one wish, I wouldn't ask for world peace. I'd wish for a real zombie apocalypse. I'll take Romero zombies any day over this counterfeit harmony bullshit. -- J. Cornell Michel
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence. -- Bill Johnson
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society. -- James Altucher
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
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient -- Marcel Proust
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
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it. -- James Madison
Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass. -- Michel de Montaigne
The devil is not fighting religion. HeÂ´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. -- Vance Havner
O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good. -- Euripides
Love 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
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
Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations. -- Randall Jarrell

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