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Vow me no vows. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Wit without Money (act IV, sc. 4) Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 5) 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 ("The Ettrick Shepherd"), The Broken Heart A vow is a snare for sin. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Vows with so much passion, sears with so much grace, That 'tis a kind of Heaven to be deluded by him. - Nathaniel Lee, Rival Queens (act I, sc. 1) Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 96) Let us embrace, and from this very moment Vow an eternal misery together. - Thomas Otway, The Orphan (act IV, sc. 1) Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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