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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing
They're the smartest, most cunning, slick, coolest group of people on the planet. Generation Z, I love y'all.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
All substances the cunning chemist Time
Melts down into that liquor of my life.
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
Hope deceives more men than cunning does.
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.
Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.
