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Every promise Ss built upon four pillars: God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish. - Samuel Salter I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. - William Shakespeare Thy promises are like Adonis' garden, That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Charles at I, vi) And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at V, viii) His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Katherine Dowager at IV, ii) He who promiseth runs in debt. - The Talmud I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do. - Arthur Warwick I will forethink what I will promise, that I may promise but what I will do. - Arthur Warwick There buds the promise of celestial worth. - Edward Young, The Last Day (bk. III, l. 317) Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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