"No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them."

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Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 319, 1732.

Bernard de Mandeville

#Passion Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes

“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”
“Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins
“To progress is always to begin always to begin again”
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;...”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.”
“Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.”

Source : "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.
“No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.”

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