Vaunt Quotes
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Our wanton accidents take root, and growTo vaunt themselves God's laws.
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More Vaunt Quotes
"There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice. I'm astonished by the man who wants purity And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin... When a man beats a carpet again and again It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.
jalal al-din muhammad rumi— Mathnawi (Teachings of Rumi (1999))
You give me back. Phœbus, my bond for four hundred thousand sesterces; lend me rather a hundred thousand more. Seek some one else to whom you may vaunt your empty present: what I cannot pay you, Phœbus, is my own.
— Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IX, Epistle 102.
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto X, Stanza 34.
