He that cannot think, is a fool;
He that will not, is a bigot;
He that dare not, is a slave. [ Inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie's Library ]
No slave, to lazy ease resign'd,
E'er triumphed over noble foes;
The monarch, Fortune, most is kind
To him who bravely dares oppose. [ Cervantes ]
Thought is the slave of the heart. [ De Finod ]
No one is a slave whose will is free. [ Tyrius Maximus ]
Base in kind, and born to be a slave. [ William Cowper ]
Do business, but be not a slave to it. [ Proverb ]
A fool to pleasure, yet a slave to fame. [ Pope ]
He's a slave that cannot command himself. [ Proverb ]
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free. [ Dawes ]
I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse - borne away with every breath. [ Byron ]
No greater hell than to be a slave to fear. [ Ben Jonson ]
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [ Juvenal ]
The great artist is the slave of his ideal. [ Bovee ]
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. [ Pope ]
Give me that man That is not passion's slave. [ William Shakespeare ]
Slave or free is settled in heaven for a man. [ Carlyle ]
The fetters of the slave bind the hands only. [ Grillparzer ]
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave. [ Pope ]
Money amassed is either our slave or our tyrant. [ Horace ]
The colored slave (ink) that waits upon thought. [ Mrs. Balfour ]
Oh! nature's noblest gift - my grey goosed quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! [ Byron ]
Gold! gold! in all ages the curse of mankind,
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind.
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird.
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word.
To gain thee men barter eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown. [ Park Benjamin ]
Better free in a strange land than a slave at home. [ German Proverb ]
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]
I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The tyrant, it has been said, is but a slave turned inside out. [ Samuel Smiles ]
He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it. [ Italian Proverb ]
He is a slave of the greatest slave who serves nothing but himself. [ Proverb ]
He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little. [ Horace ]
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, is emulation in the learned or brave. [ Pope ]
The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. [ De Tocqueville ]
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. [ Dryden ]
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. [ Beaconsfield ]
All passions are good when one masters them; all are bad when one is a slave to them. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. [ Dryden ]
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own. [ Proverb ]
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. [ Klopstock ]
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
The Stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as the slave does. [ E. Souvestre ]
Instruction is to the proletary what liberty is to the slave: the latter emancipates the body, the former emancipates the intelligence. [ E. de Girardin ]
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. [ Heine ]
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it. [ Seneca ]
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. [ Saadi ]
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems. [ Coleridge ]
I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]