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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON VOWS
Vows begin when hope dies.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
A vow is a snare for sin.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.
William Penn (1644-1718, British religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania)
Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
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