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"And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, To hide the feeling heart?"
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Hypocrisy"You never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you dont get caught, because if you are caught no one—or no one who has any sense—will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself."
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
"And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, To hide the feeling heart?"
"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."
"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.”"
"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."
"How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite."
"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."