And they swore by Allah with the strongest of their oaths that if there came to them a warner they would be better guided than any of the nations; but when there came to them a warner it increased them in naught but aversion.
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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which ...
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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Deuteronomy 10:20:
Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
(NIV)
You shall [reverently] fear the Lord your God; you shall serve Him and cling to Him, and by His name and presence you shall swear.
(AMP)
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
(KJV)
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The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
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I will die a hundred thousand deaths Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.
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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.
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Liars are always ready to take oaths.
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Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
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Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
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