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

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Morals
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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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If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Proverb

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

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In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise. – William Irwin Thompson

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