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• I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

  Pierre Loti

  Determination, Prayer, Break

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• Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Faces, Problem, Reincarnation

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• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Years, America

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• If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love, Marriage, Couple

  "To My Dear and Loving Husband" l. 1 (1678)

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

  Emily Yoffe

  Guarantees That, Promise, Matter

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?

  Jane Yolen

  Heart, Mouths

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• I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Energy, Tribes

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Cities, Cells

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• Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

  Voltaire

  Destiny, Men, Your Destiny

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• I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Opportunity, Half

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1985.

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• May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Blessed, May

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how desperate the situation. The aircraft was hit by flak during a mission and went into a terminal dive, and the pilot ordered everyone to bail out. The top turret gunner obeyed the order, but the ball turret gunner discovered that a piece of flak had jammed his turret and he could not get out. The other three men in his pact could have bailed out with the parachutes, but they stayed with him until the plan hit the ground and exploded. They all died.

  Sebastian Junger

  Death, War, Men

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• Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Dream, Kings, Attention

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Balance, Want, Capacity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Men, Age

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• Vows begin when hope dies.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Human Condition, Dies

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.

  Rob Brezsny

  Healing, Soul, Paganism

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• I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.

  Roger Lewis

  Artist, Thinking, Celibacy

  Roger Lewis (1995). “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”, Cornerstone

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• Take a vow for a life of service to others.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Service To Others

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• Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Following Christ, Practice

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• I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Suffering, Killing

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• I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

  Paul Tillich

  Beautiful, Kindness, Mind

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• Vow to seek a Calm Inner Response to the Circumstances of your Life

  Wayne Dyer

  Calm, Circumstances, Response

  Wayne W. Dyer (2007). “Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life”, p.140, Hay House, Inc

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• I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Taken, Order

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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