Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.    From LearnThat.org.  [M. C. Richards]

Neither did he delude himself about Bush's prospects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Road To Houston] Reference

They're trying to delude the worms into thinking it's dawn already.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

And he: 'Neither did Phoebus on his oracular seat delude thee, O prince.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

"The trick is not to delude yourself," he said in response to a question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comeback Kid?] Reference

It won't delude you into thinking that marriage is an institution that works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Some say when they call us it is to delude us or to somehow work some mischief.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mess] Reference

I believe to be sincere, do you not see to what an extent you delude yourselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But we mustn't delude ourselves into thinking that that is their prime objective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

"Ah!" was the royal answer, "it is very pleasant to delude one's self sometimes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference

Sophistry may for a while delude, but the mind reposes upon the stability of truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

Our state's precarious (it's needless to delude ourselves otherwise), and our friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

It was to delude ourselves with mere phrases, and conduct the war on false pretenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

No manner of pulpit drivel can delude even the unthinking masses to this misconception.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference

But don't delude yourself into thinking this is about truth, justice and the American way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: The Iraqi Horror Picture Show] Reference

We delude ourselves into believing we've constructed something for our sons and daughters.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blow to the Possible] Reference

'And yet, let us rather look the truth in the face, and not delude ourselves with false hopes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

But let's not delude ourselves: There can never be peace in the Middle East with a nuclear-armed Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Want Middle East Peace? Deny Iran Nukes] Reference

Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

This is a superficial phrase, which it is marvellous that any reflecting person can delude himself with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Worse, vague laws delude people about their rights and fan the very conflicts they're supposed to resolve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits Of The Law] Reference

Americans often delude themselves that all problems can be "solved" if only government would act "boldly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Paulson's Panic] Reference

Let's not delude ourselves into thinking it is only the Muslim world that is outraged by Israel's actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

Henry doesn't delude himself into thinking that anyone besides professors is crying out for a new calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: A Calendar You Can Count on] Reference

Employees, for their part, may delude themselves that it's smart to buy into a business they know firsthand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger In Your 401(k)] Reference

Capital flight We delude ourselves if we think greater prosperity will soon, if ever, erase these differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican Standoff] Reference

I think I was trying to delude myself that I could control the thing while the thing was actually controlling me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let the shitbirds fly] Reference

Without a scale, it's easier to delude yourself about what seems to be an inevitable creepage of pounds with age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some extra weight may not be a major health concern for older people] Reference

No. Hon, I don't want to be unkind to you or to him, but I can't stand seeing you delude yourself, making yourself sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Life] Reference

First of all, because she did not delude herself with regard to the return of the moral energy of which Boleslas was so proud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

We should remember that over the coming months as liberals delude themselves while militating to keep the illusions of 2008 alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Levine: Would it Be Worse if McCain Were President?] Reference

Maybe the pictures delude us into thinking we don't really have to pay attention because the camera will do the remembering for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putting The Camera Away] Reference

Grade inflation is the national norm: through high grades and easy college admissions, we delude students about how much they know.    From Wordnik.com.  [The School Reform Fraud] Reference

Both Carr and Christie told the absolute truth -- within the framework of the story -- and left it to the reader to delude himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference

He next proceeded to delude all his subjects by means of the sham conspiracy by which he had ensnared his victims on to the scaffold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

I can't stand coming home from work day after day to find you've manufactured some new evidence to delude yourself there's hope for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Life] Reference