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Letter "V" » vow
«I loved thee beautiful and kind, and plighted an eternal vow; so altered are thy face and mind, 'Twere perjury to love thee now»
«There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do»
«Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
In The Dark, The Dark, the darkness, vow, vowing, walk in
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
| Keywords:
chastity, corpse, deform, deformed, deforms, distressing, emasculated, engaged, gallows, impotent, in a sense, missionary, offers, sentiments, sodomy, spectacle, vow
«The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself»
«Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss»
«Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Love,
Promise
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creed, excludes, Free Inquiry, inquiry, vow
«The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.»
«QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brewer, erroneously, infallible, intent on, quotation, repeating, truer, vow
«Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.»
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