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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Joseph Joubert
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
Tryon Edwards
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You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.
Gary Renard
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Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.
Adam Mickiewicz
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Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. Lawrence
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.
Swami Vivekananda
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Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
Marianne Williamson
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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Antonio Porchia
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God's love is bigger than our failures and stronger than any chains that bind us.
Jennifer Rothschild
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When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
Antonio Porchia
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.
Swami Vivekananda
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
Vaclav Havel
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A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich