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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match. ↗

— Frank Woolley

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April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ↗

— Hal Borland

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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