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Letter "F" » fetters
«I am sick of the solace of sorrow, And fear what the prophets foretold; I am tired of the tears of tomorrow, And wish that things were as of old; I have felt of the force of the fetters, I have drunk of the draught that embitters, And all is not gold»
«Only in fetters is liberty. Without its banks, Can a river be?»
«The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.»
«Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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«To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters»
«Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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«To death do I hand them over, with the fetters of death they have been bound. To the evil messengers of death do I lead them captive.»
«one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
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«The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Freedom,
Slavery
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«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.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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