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"And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, To hide the feeling heart?"
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"Sir Joshua having also observed, that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements, Johnson added, “Yes, Sir; no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”"
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Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning what one is not or professing what one does not believe. The word "hypocrisy" entered the English language c. 1200 with the meaning "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness". Today, "hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice. However, the term can also refer to other forms of pretense, such as engaging in pious or moral beh
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"He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite."
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"In sermon style he bought, And sold, and lied; and salutations made In Scripture terms. He prayed by quantity, And with his repetitions long and loud, All knees were weary."
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"How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite."
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"When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, theres as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a Vizor and a Face."
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"For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heavn and earth."
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