#bind

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. ↗

— William Blake

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Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. ↗

— David Duchovny

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In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. ↗

— William Tyndale

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