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Fetters Quotes

But he who stems a stream with sand, and fetters flame with flaxen band, has yet a harder task to prove by firm resolve to conquer love! Picture Quote #1

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter Picture Quote #1

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism Picture Quote #1

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body’s sufferings. We shall become free Picture Quote #1

To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters Picture Quote #1

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters Picture Quote #1

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Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition Picture Quote #1

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty Picture Quote #1

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters Picture Quote #1

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long Picture Quote #1

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow Picture Quote #1

Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts Picture Quote #1

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Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty Picture Quote #1

Things good in themselves... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter Picture Quote #1

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of angels and god, and at liberty when of devils and hell, is because he was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it Picture Quote #1

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters Picture Quote #1

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad Picture Quote #1

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But he who stems a stream with sand, and fetters flame with flaxen band, has yet a harder task to prove by firm resolve to conquer love! (Fetters Quotes) The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter (Fetters Quotes) Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism (Fetters Quotes) If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body’s sufferings. We shall become free (Fetters Quotes) To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters (Fetters Quotes) True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters (Fetters Quotes) Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition (Fetters Quotes) Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty (Fetters Quotes) I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters (Fetters Quotes) Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long (Fetters Quotes) All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow (Fetters Quotes) Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts (Fetters Quotes) Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty (Fetters Quotes) Things good in themselves... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter (Fetters Quotes) The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of angels and god, and at liberty when of devils and hell, is because he was a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it (Fetters Quotes) It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters (Fetters Quotes) The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad (Fetters Quotes)

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