Oh, let me midlife mourn by the shrined And druid herons' vows...
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But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: / And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: / And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
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The talk not of Inconstancy, False Hearts, and broken Vows;...
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By the time you say you’re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying – Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.
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And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath; / And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
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And must I wholly banish hence these red and golden juices, and pay my vows to Abstinence, that pallidest of Muses?
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I am falser than vows made in wine
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Unless we live with non-violence and reverence for all living beings in our hearts, all our humaneness and acts of goodness, all our vows, virtues, and knowledge, all our practices to give up greed and acquisitiveness are meaningless and useless.
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Men's vows are women's traitors!
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Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
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Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
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