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"A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season." »Chuang Tzu
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"If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him." »Thomas Fuller
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"I am not bound to please thee with my answers." »William Shakespeare
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"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound." »Herman Melville
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"Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason." »Israel Lipkin
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"When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down." »Eudora Welty
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"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster." »Robert M. Pirsig
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"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved." »Michel de Montaigne
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"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be." »Marquis de Sade
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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." »Bertrand Russell
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"Alas, for him who is gone and hath done no good work! The trumpet of march has sounded, and his load was not bound on." »Persian
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." »Andrew Carnegie
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"Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth." »Delores Seats
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries." »William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
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"If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance." »William S. Gilbert
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"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance." »W. S. Gilbert
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." »Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life." »Henry Van Dyke
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"Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error." »Joyce
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"Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect." »William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
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"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens." »George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
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"Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere." »Julius Henry Marx
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"I'm not naive. I realise that quality of life and income are inextricably bound together, but sooner or later we're going to have to ask ourselves whether it is possible to make life more meaningful without charging it to Visa." »Daron Hicklin
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"So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it." »Haniel Long
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"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." »Albert Einstein
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"Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever." »Seneca
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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"Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves." »Sigmund Freud
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