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Tag Name "Oath" (193)

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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
Anne Hutchinson
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An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.
Veronica Rossi
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Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
Philip Pullman
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OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
Ambrose Bierce
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An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
Thomas Southerne
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Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.
Jack Paar
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All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.
Clive Ponting
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They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
William Cowper
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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
William Cowper
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It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st
William Cowper
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God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.
William Cowper
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When we talked about going to help Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry how many doctors in Cuba raised their hands to go? 15 thousand. In their homes they said, We are willing to go risk our lives to help other countries. That is true medicine it is the true observance of the Hippocratic Oath that doctors swear to.
Alejandro Castro Espin
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I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.
Chuck Hagel
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His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
William Shakespeare
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His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate his tears pure messengers sent from his heart his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth
William Shakespeare
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Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty Calls virtue hypocrite takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths.
William Shakespeare
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
William Shakespeare
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I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
William Shakespeare
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It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
William Shakespeare
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Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.
Wolf Blitzer
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Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.
Aeschylus
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For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
Aeschylus
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
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