Fetters Quote by Thomas Otway Download Open image “Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.” — Thomas Otway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fetters Fool Gaudy Greatness Men Rage Soul Spirituality Suffering Torment Wise
Thou art so witty, wicked, and so thin, Thou art at once the Devil, Death, and Sin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine,… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“In discourse more sweet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate- Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion… — John Milton Copy Share
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee.… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou soul, that art the eternity of thought, And giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth,… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
There is such sweet pain in parting that I could hang forever on thine arms, and look away my life into thine eyes. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
If we must part for ever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking! — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whatever… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
Whoever makes love grow boundless, and sets his mind for seeing the end of birth, his fetters are worn thin. If he loves even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image