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in fetters
«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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despotism, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, possessions, secured
«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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«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)
| Keywords:
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«(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) / And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.»
«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
| Keywords:
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«Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.»
«And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; / Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.»
«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
| Keywords:
fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, resolves, slave, slavery
«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, duties, embitter, embittered, embitters, fetter, fettered, in fetters, jealous, mistress, painting, provider, providers, season
