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Every one knows the veneration which was paid by the Jews to a name so great, wonderful, and holy. They would not let it enter even into their religious discourses. What can we then think of those who make use of so tremendous a name, in the ordinary expression of their anger, mirth, and most impertinent passions? - Joseph Addison Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. - Hosea Ballou Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding. - Joseph Cook Of all the dark catalogue of sins there is not one more vile and execrable than profaneness. It commonly does, and loves to cluster with other sins; and he who can look up and insult his Maker to His face needs but little improvement in guilt to make him a finished devil. - Samuel H. Cox The loud type of vulgarity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is difficult to account for a practice which gratifies no passion and promotes no interest. - Robert Hall Swearing is properly a superfluity of naughtiness, and can only be considered as a sort of pepper-corn rent, in acknowledgment of the devil's right of superiority. - Robert Hall From a common custom of swearing men easily slide into perjury; therefore, if thou wouldst not be perjured, do not use thyself to swear. - Hierocles The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. - Horace Mann To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. - Alexander Pope When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Cloten at II, i) Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue. - Jeremy Taylor None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions. - John Tillotson The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. - George Washington
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