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«Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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conform, conform to, constraint, constraints, dictates, instituted, instituting, The Passions
«The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
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constraint, constraints, encounters, precise, presided
«The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: / Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; / Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.»
Author: Bible
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constraint, constraints, elder, exhort, exhorted, exhorting, filthy, lords, lucre, Old Glory, oversight, partaker, sufferings
«In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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cloister, cloistered, constraint, constraints, obligations, stricter, submits
«The man of affectation may, perhaps, be reclaimed, by finding how little he is likely to gain by perpetual constraint and incessant vigilance, and how much more securely he might make his way to esteem, by cultivating real, than by displaying counter»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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affectation, constraint, constraints, displaying, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, securely
«Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.»
«The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.»
«All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.»
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