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Quote by Robert Bolt
When a man takes an oath...,hes holding his ownself in his own han

When a man takes an oath…,hes holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he neednt hope to find himself again. – Robert Bolt

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Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Robert Bolt

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Death
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It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world… but for Wales! – Robert Bolt

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Soul
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Moralitys not practical. Moralitys a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. – Robert Bolt

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Morals
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Promises
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

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Promises

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Promises

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. – Fareed Zakaria

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Promises

As a human being, the best eulogy I can reasonably hope for is “He made his promises sincerely and broke them regretfully.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Promises

Random Quotes

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? – John W. Foster

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Economics

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of Gods providence. – Hugh Blair

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Worry

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. – Daniel Defoe

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Self