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

    Love   Humble   Self  
    Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
  • 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!

    Blow   Men   Fire  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1
  • 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.

    Struggle   Taken   Law  
  • 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.

    Real   Men   Vaunt  
  • Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

    Roots   Law   Vaunt  
    Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.53
  • 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.

    Mean   Men   Court Judges  
    Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria
  • 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   Vaunt   Cracks  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1
  • 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!

    Hymns   Hypocrisy   Vaunt  
    Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.258, Simon and Schuster
  • Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

    Wise   Men   Vanity  
  • The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

    Success   Race   Vaunt  
    Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.276
  • Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

    Hands   Victory   Vaunt  
    Edmund Spenser (1852). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...”, p.214
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