Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for me

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. – Abraham Lincoln

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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds. – Abraham Lincoln

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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. – Leo Tolstoy

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Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. – Laurence Sterne, 1760

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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. – Earl Campbell

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Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You cant go on making records just for your own hometown. – Cheryl James

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Practice yourself, for heavens sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. – Epictetus

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