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• ..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.

  Daniel Webster

  War, Broken, Restoration

  Henry Rootes Jackson, Joseph M. Brown, Daniel Webster (1891*). “The Wanderer Case: The Speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga”

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• Once more upon the waters! yet once more!
  And the waves bound beneath me as a steed
  That knows his rider.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Sea, Water

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 2

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• Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

  Bill Johnson

  Way, Failing, Attempting

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• But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

  Lu Xun

  Taken, Thinking, Unbiased

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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• But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
  The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
  Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
  Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Flower, Health

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more or less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government's being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend.

  John Adams

  Kings, Men, Voice

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

  James Thurber

  Broadway Theatre, Superstitions, Theater

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• Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

  David Zucker

  Mean, Trying, Steps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

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• The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

  Arthur Henderson

  Community, World, Prosperity

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• If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

  John Locke

  Thinking, Mad, Liberty

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• It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

  John Locke

  Opinion, Persuasion, Certain Knowledge

  John Locke (1996). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.5, Hackett Publishing

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• The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Light, Atheism, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor (1841). “The Whole Sermons of Jeremy Taylor ...: And, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Holy Dying : with a Biographical Memoir”, p.310

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• He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.

  William Watson

  Fall, Eye, Bridges

  William Watson, “Thomas Hood”

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• One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Space, Giving

  "Religion and the Rebel". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 309, 1957.

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• I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

  John Locke

  Lying, Government, Atheism

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.10

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• It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

  Danny Boyle

  Brain, Stories, Seducing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• I landed on Gay Pride and I couldn't believe my eyes! Not only were gay people real - I had only heard rumours - but they had parades. There were men covered in glitter bound together with furry handcuffs. I felt like I was in outer space, I honestly thought I had arrived at the happiest place on earth.

  Pamela Anderson

  Real, Believe, Eye

  Interview with Savi Kuruppu, cargocollective.com.

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• Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

  John Muir

  Strong, Wall, Light

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• You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

  Pope Gregory I

  Mountain, Leaps And Bounds, Climbs

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• Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Numbers, Trying

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• ...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.

  Clive Ponting

  Secret, Force, Form

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• With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.

  Billy Graham

  Matter, Results

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