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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

—Milton,John

If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of.Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

—Tennyson

When I am thy captive talk of chains, Proud limitary cherub.

—Milton,John

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed,ö Or to victorie!ö Now's the day, and now's the hour; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Edward's power, Chains and Slaverie!

—Burns, Robert

   Long my imprisoned spirit lay Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening rayö I woke, the dungeon flamed with light, My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

—Wesley, Charles

One of the strongest motives that lead people to give their lives to art and science is the urge to flee from everyday life, with its drab and deadly dullness and thus to unshackle the chains of one's own transient desires, which supplant one another in an interminable succession so long as the mind is fixed on the horizon of daily environment.

—Einstein, Albert

Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.

—Grillparzer, Franz

'We were the colour of shadows when we came down with tinkling leg-irons to join the chains of the sea, for the silver coins multiplying on the sold horizon.'

—Walcott, Derek Alton

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

—Wordsworth,William

Oh, to have a little house! To own the hearth and stool and all! The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains And pendulum swinging up and down, A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown!

—Colum, Padraic

L'homme est ne¤   libre, et partout il est dans les fers. Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.

—Rousseau,JeanJacques

Amar es combatir, es abrir puertas, dejar de ser fantasma con un n u¤ mero a perpetua cadena condenado por un amo sin rostro. To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master.

—Paz, Octavio

The spirit that now resists your taxation in America is†the same spirit that established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your libertiesöthat no subject of England shall betaxed but byhis ownconsent. The glorious spirit of Whiggismanimates three million in America, who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as free men.

—Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder

O Domine Deus! speravi inTe; O care miJesu! nunc libera me; In dura catena, in misera poena, DesideroTe, Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me! O Lord my God, I hope in thee; My dear Lord Jesus, set me free; In chains, in pains On bended knee I adore thee, implore thee To set me free.

—Stuart, Mary known as Mary, Queen of Scots

Jazzcameto Americathreehundred years ago in chains.

—Whiteman, Paul

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

—Edgeworth, Maria

Newspapersarebornfreeand everywhereareinchains. See Rousseau 700:41.

—Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald)

   Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

   Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness, That is not kept in chains, and close-pent rooms, But in fair lightsome lodgings, and isgirt With the wild noise of prattling visitants, Which makes it lunatic beyond all cure.

—Webster,John

A soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)

Es ist oft besser, in Ketten als frei zu sein. It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

—Kafka, Franz

Talk of our enlightened days and our emancipated countryöpure nonsense! We are firmly held with the self-fashioned chains of slavery.Yes, now I see that they are self-fashioned, and must be self-removed.

—Beauchamp

Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable numberö Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep has fallen on youö Ye are manyöthey are few.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

—Farquhar, George

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

—Milton,John