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«You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.»
«To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.»
«My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
(Author)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
balloon, balloons, confine, definition, Down to Earth, haul, hauled, hauling, haul up, holding, hold down, philosopher, ropes
«Confine yourself to the present.»
«In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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attended, confine, confining, inconvenience, inconvenienced, in writing, strictly
«I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
confine, confining, expressing, facts, opinions, themselves
«Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,The extravagant and erring spirit hiesTo his confine.»
«O, sir! you are old;Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine.»
«I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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