"Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation……" — Joseph Joubert

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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
• Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. — Luc de Clapiers
• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the… — Charles Dickens
• It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral… — Thomas Jefferson
• Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
• Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other. — Hermann Bondi
• All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but… — Thomas Jefferson
• Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,… — Thomas Jefferson
• Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His… — Watchman Nee
• Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we… — James A. Baldwin
• 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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