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Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?
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   But all is turned, through my gentleness, Into a strange fashion of forsaking.


— 1557  'They Flee from Me'.

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If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.

tom delay

— [2004 August 31]

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The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another : I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself.


— Marquise de Lambert, A Mother's Advice to Her Son (1726), p. 155.

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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising".

Tacitus

— Book VI, 52, referring to Tiberius.

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The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another:;: I want your approbation, you stand in need of mine. By forsaking the converse of men, we forsake the virtues necessary for society; for when one is alone, one is apt to grow negligent; the world forces you to have a guard over yourself.


— Marquise de Lambert, A Mother's Advice to Her Son (1726), p. 155.

Tags: love, esteem, life, soul, society, unites, us, one, another

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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising".


— Book VI, 52, referring to Tiberius.

Tags: upbraided, Macro, obscure, indirect, terms, setting, sun, turning, rising

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Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?

Book of Common Prayer

— Solemnization of Marriage, Betrothal.

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