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Quote by George Santayana
Oaths are the fossils of piety. - George Santayana

Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

Other quotes by George Santayana

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Happiness
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By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana

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Nature
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Promises
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He was ever precise in promise-keeping. – William Shakespeare

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Promises

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he is in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine

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Promises

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Promises

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. – William Penn

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Promises

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And thats the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is youre trying to get better every day. Youre trying to improve. – Tim Tebow

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Its easier to sit there and say you dont like feminists because they dont have a sense of humor. – Joan Jett

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The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see whats actually happening to our culture? – Hugh Mackay

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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. – Charles Baudelaire

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Infinity