"How shall I a habit break? As you……" — John Boyle O'Reilly
"How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan"
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38 Quotes by John Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly has 38 quotes on this site.
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Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.
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Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
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Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
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Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to…
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And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that…
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A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
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The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
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I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
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For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence.…
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They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged,…
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More Bind Quotes
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
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All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
— Watchman Nee
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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