“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The White American's wealth is built on the back of the Native American. Of the Black American. Of the oppressed. Therefore, I believe we are especially deeply obliged to give to those less fortunate.”
Ethan Herrin
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise”
William Blake
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him”
Cleobulus
“The vow that binds too strictly snaps, itself”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.”
Charles de Lint