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• Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 67, 1990.

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• Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored?" "Maybe." "Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger ... corporation?" "Whatever." "By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons."

  Robert Slade

  Running, Men, Bored

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• I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.

  John Barlas

  Stars, Prayer, Heart

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• I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

  George Colman the Elder

  Secret, Pleasure, Secrecy

  David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press

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• I vow, is there no man who can talk about physical pleasures without exaggerating?

  Karen Hawkins

  Men, Pleasure, Exaggerating

  Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

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• Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

  John Dryden

  Prayer, Angel, Heaven

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.287

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• From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

  Epictetus

  Needs, Disappointing, Instant

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• I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Mom, Thinking, Arkansas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars. But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply. The hacksaw has two blades. The shotgun has two barrels. We are pregnant with freedom. We are a conspiracy.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Love Is, Hands

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.145, Zed Books

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• Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Wife, Together

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• If they had only themselves to consider, lovers would not need to marry, but they must think of others and of other things. They say their vows to the community as much as to one another, and the community gathers around them to hear and to wish them well, on their behalf and its own. It gathers around them because it understands how necessary, how joyful, and how fearful this joining is. These lovers, pledging themselves to one another "until death," are giving themselves away, and they are joined by this as no law or contract could join them.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Law, Giving

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• Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.

  Steve Jobs

  Girl, Dream, Soulmate

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• I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

  Richard Dooling

  Writing, Technology, Three

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• Yet, for I know thou art religious
  And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
  With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies
  Which I have seen thee careful to observe,
  Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know
  An idiot holds his bauble for a god
  And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,
  To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow
  By that same god, what god soe'er it be,
  That thou adorest and hast in reverence,
  To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,
  Or else I will discover naught to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Art, Boys

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed”, p.697

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• A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Men, Imagination

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• No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

  Leonard Cohen

  Revenge, Penance, Why Not

  Song: Humbled In Love, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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• The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh.

  Christopher West

  Catholic, Church, Unions

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• Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

  James Hogg

  Broken, Sorrow, World

  James Hogg (1840). “The poetical works of the Ettrick shepherd: including the Queen's wake, Pilgrims of the sun, Mador of the moor, Mountain bard, &c. &c”, p.168

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• Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.

  St. George Tucker

  Son, Men, Land

  "A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia". Book by St. George Tucker, 1796.

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• This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

  David Mitchell

  Baby, Love Is, Lust

  David Mitchell (2014). “The Bone Clocks”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.

  Catherine of Aragon

  Love, Sexy, Eye

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• A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.

  Myles Munroe

  Commitment, Promise, Duration

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.27, Destiny Image Publishers

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• What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Two

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• What's our baggage? Only vows,
  Happiness, and all our care,
  And the flower that sweetly shows
  Nestling lightly in your hair.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Flower, Hair

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Poems (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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