#chain

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ↗

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Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ↗

— Robert Browning

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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. ↗