I hope, my dear, I do not deceive myself, and, instead of setting about rectifying what is amiss in my heart, endeavour to find excuses for habits and peculiarities, which I am unwilling to cast off or overcome.

I deceive Thee not; nor wonder thou canst scarce believe.

You can trust it or deceive it; When all's done Beneath God's sun You can only love and leave it.

I will never deceive my dear Grandmother again!

The mother was a woman of virtue, and determined not to dishonour her daughter and her family by compliance; but being well acquainted with the impetuosity of the king’s temper, she thought it would be easier, as well as safer, to deceive than refuse him.

It seems pitiable, Mr. Wingate, that a man with brains like yours should have sought to deceive in so puerile a fashion.

Because the mind not being certain of the truth of that it does not evidently know, but only yielding to the probability that appears in it, is bound to give up its assent to such a testimony which, it is satisfied, comes from one who cannot err, and will not deceive.

There are sins of omission as well as of commission, and writers betray and deceive the world as much by the former class as by the latter.

He is his own antagonist, and is never satisfied until he has outdone himself as well as that which he proposed, for he loves to be better than his word (though it always falls out worse) and deceive the world the wrong way.

But it was not easy for the republicans to deceive the vigilance, or elude the grasp of their adversary.

I know my letter was a cruel one, and to you quite unwarranted; but I had a reason for writing it, and the reason was because I felt that I ought not to deceive you any longer.

"You can't deceive me any longer.

[Approaching] I was thinking you would deceive me by not coming.

" In this way Rachel tried to deceive herself as to the real reason which led her to regard with favoring eyes the suit of this supposed lover whom she had never seen, and about whom she knew absolutely nothing.

"Because you have been trying to deceive me.

" "I trying to deceive you!"

But his carelessness did not deceive his companion.

They cannot deceive; they will not lie.

&c. I may say the same of smiling, gait, nakedness of parts, plausible gestures, &c. To laugh is the proper passion of a man, an ordinary thing to smile; but those counterfeit, composed, affected, artificial and reciprocal, those counter-smiles are the dumb shows and prognostics of greater matters, which they most part use, to inveigle and deceive; though many fond lovers again are so frequently mistaken, and led into a fool's paradise.

what is their end, but to deceive and inveigle young men?

" [5203]A thousand years, as Castilio conceives, "will scarce serve to reckon up those allurements and guiles, that men and women use to deceive one another with.

" "In the dark night I speak, embrace, and find That fading joys deceive my careful mind.

[5710] "Fallunt nos oculi vagique sensus, Oppressa ratione mentiuntur," "our eyes and other senses will commonly deceive us;" it may be, to thee thyself upon a more serious examination, or after a little absence, she is not so fair as she seems.

But why will he thus deceive himself?

"For the sins of the miserable, the forlorn, the friendless, He has pity and compassion; but for the sins of the well-taught, the high-placed, the rich, the self-indulgent, for obstinate and malignant sin, the sin of those who hate, and deceive, and corrupt, and betray, His wrath is terrible, its expression is unrestrained."