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We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies. – James Joyce	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. – Thomas Aquinas	added by anonymous 9 years ago
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right. – George F. Kennan	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. – Jerome K. Jerome	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away. – George Herbert	added by anonymous 9 years ago
[George] Washington intended this to be a Federal city, and it is a Federal city, and it tingles down to the feet of every man, whether he comes from Washington State, or Los Angeles, or Texas, when he comes and walks these city streets and begins to feel that this is my city; I own a part of this Capital, and I envy for the time being those who are able to spend their time here. I quite admit that there are defects in the system of government by which Congress is bound to look after the government of the District of Columbia. It could not be otherwise under such a system, but I submit to the judgment of history that the result vindicates the foresight of the fathers. – William Howard Taft	added by anonymous 9 years ago
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me. – Laurence Sterne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. – Bertolt Brecht	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. – Louis Pasteur	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. – James Allen	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the word of no master am I bound to believe. – Horace	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. – Andrew Carnegie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I can't say I have a favorite model that I have worked with. Besides there are so many, someone is bound to be insulted I didn't select them, however, I will tell you that Susan Flynn-Doyle will always be my favorite muse. – Robert Bonhomme	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Kick a man who's down and he's bound to kill you if he ever gets back up – Ahmed Korayem	added by anonymous 11 years ago
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	added by anonymous 12 years ago
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	added by anonymous 12 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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