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“Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.”

Law Grows Roots Accidents Wanton Vaunt

Book:Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc

Source: Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc

“The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.”

Success Race Vaunt

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.”

Men Real Action Ready Deeds Noble Acknowledge Merit Glorious Boast Vaunt

Author:Aeschines

“True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.”

Love Self Speak Love Is Known Seeking Humble True Love Is Vaunt

Book:The microcosm, and other poems

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“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!”

Virtue Praise Loud Hypocrisy Forty Preaching Hymns Practise Vaunt

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.”

Men Wise Fool Slave Vanity Vain Paradise Glorious Admiration Idols Scorn Vaunt

Author:Francis Bacon

“And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!”

Men World Destruction Strikes Flats Cracks Thick Thunder Shaking Spills Mould Lear Thunderbolts Vaunt

Author:William Shakespeare

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!”

Men World White Fire Wind Blow Strikes Rage Flats Cracks Thick Cheeks Thunder Shaking Mold Oaks Spills Lear Executing Thunderbolts Cleaving Vaunt

Author:William Shakespeare

“Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.”

Hands Causes Victory Unjust Vaunt

Book:The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...

Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...

“The American people have entered upon the mightiest civic struggle known to their history. ... The Golden Rule is rejected by the heads of all the great departments of trade, and the law of Cain, which repudiates the obligations that we are mutually under to one another, is fostered and made the rule of action throughout the world. Corporate feudality has taken the place of chattel slavery and vaunts its power in every state.”

People World Made States Action Law Known Struggle Taken Slavery Trade Obligation Golden Corporate Department Rejected Civics Golden Rule Cain Vaunt

Author:James B. Weaver

“Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.”

Ifs Men Mean Law Humanity Mines Judging Court Punishment Scorn Disdain Law Courts Court Judges Vaunt

Book:Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran