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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Diane Ackerman

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Plato

The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives; Over and over To the lowly clover He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too). He will be lisping and pledging to you.

John Vance Cheney

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Samuel Johnson

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

Erich Auerbach

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

Sherry Turkle

Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.

Stephen King

Don't be afraid to borrow if someone else has said it well. Winston Churchill said, The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. That's so well said. You could stay up all night and not think of that.

Jim Rohn

Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it.

Huldrych Zwingli

Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.

Gail Caldwell

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?

Nikolai Gogol

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

Rod Serling

Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!

Richard Bach

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

Ronald Coase

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

Christopher Hitchens

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