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That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.
The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see.
I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.
It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.
Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal.
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.
Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have.
Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.
Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.