#binds

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary. ↗

— Barney Frank

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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love. ↗

— Ignatius Loyola

#blessed #considering #consists #creator #god

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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