Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you.
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Meg Haston
An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.
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James Howell
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.
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JeanJacques Rousseau
Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Jonathan Swift
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
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George Washington
More Quotes By JeanJacques Rousseau
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he...
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
