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«The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.»
«Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
Imprisonment
| Keywords:
capital punishment, dungeon, dungeons, imprisonment, murderer
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, break open, brotherhood, buried, chain, controlling, depths, dungeon, dungeons, flinging, flings, flung, grieves, imparting, imparts, lights, like this, midnight, oftenest, Open Wide, passive, prisoners, receptacle, receptacles, remorse, revelry, Selecting, sensibilities, sensibility, slumber, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, The Brotherhood, vividness, wide-open, wide
«So live that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan that movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.»
«It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| About:
Internet,
Life,
Nations
| Keywords:
babies, dungeons, explain, internet, The Internet
«He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.»
«Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Liberty,
Youth
| Keywords:
criminal law, dig, dungeons, educational, strict
«I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
corner, dungeon, dungeons, The Vapors, toad, vapor, vapors
«He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
clothe, divine power, dungeon, dungeons, immure, rags, slavish