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«I loved thee beautiful and kind, and plighted an eternal vow; so altered are thy face and mind, 'Twere perjury to love thee now»
Author: Acilius | Keywords: altered, plight, plighted, vow
«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»
Author: Fulton J. Sheen | Keywords: dress, gladly, vow
«Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the darkness fall.»
«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.»
«The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself»
«Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | Keywords: Aye, bliss, endless, soft, vow, vowing
«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»
«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.»
Author: Pope John Paul II (Pope) | About: Celibacy, Religion | Keywords: celibacy, maturity, priest, vow
«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»
«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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