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 George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate...
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
