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The Captive
«Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
captive, desires, The Captive
«It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor»
Author: Margaret Fuller
| Keywords:
abandon, armor, captive, infatuated, madder, The Captive, walk in, wounded
«Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.»
«I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; / And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? / The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.»
«And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, / The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, / To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
acceptable, anointed, anoints, at liberty, Book of, brokenhearted, bruised, bruises, captives, deliverance, delivered, gospel, heal, It Was Written, opened, open sight, place setting, preach, prophet, recovering, The Blind, The Captive, The Prophet
«And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.»
«On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
captives, exiled, exiles, on that, orphaned, orphans, The Captive, The Exile, The Grave
«Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.»
«A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beat, captive, fainting, faints, falsehood, hates, The Captive, The Wall, wall
«And simple truth miscalled simplicity,And captive good attending captain ill.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attending, captain, captive, The Captive
