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Chains That Bind Quotes

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.65, Hay House, Inc

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.255, Simon and Schuster