“I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.”
Source: Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer
“The heavy hanging chains shall fall,
The walls shall crumble at the word,
And Freedom greet you with the light
And brothers give you back the sword.”
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Aleksandr Pushkin 33
Russian poet 1799–1837Related quotes
Wartet nur! [Only Wait!] in Poems for the Times ; also in Poems of Heinrich Heine: Three Hundred and Twenty-five Poems (1917) Selected and translated by Louis Untermeyer, p. 263
“Into the breast that gives the rose,
Shall I with shuddering fall?”
George Meredith
(1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems1/00000087.htm, st. 13 (1862).
“Today greets you in the morning with an embrace and a kiss. How will you greet it back?”
Steve Maraboli
(1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73
“Shall I show you the door… or would you rather go out through the wall?" - Maris”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
(1965) Novelist
Source: Cloak & Silence
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Warren Buffett
(1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Though Buffet is reported to have expressed such ideas with such remarks many times in his lectures, he never claimed to originate the idea, and in the article "The Chains of Habit Are Too Light To Be Felt Until They Are Too Heavy To Be Broken" at the Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/warren-buffett/ it is shown that this sort of expression about chains goes back at least to similar ideas presented by Samuel Johnson in "The Vision of Theodore, The Hermit of Teneriffe, Found in His Cell" in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 18 (April 1748), p.160:
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she had the address of appearing only to attend, but was continually doubling her chains upon her companions; which were so slender in themselves, and so silently fastened, that while the attention was engaged by other objects, they were not easily perceived. Each link grew tighter as it had been longer worn, and when, by continual additions, they became so heavy as to be felt, they were very frequently too strong to be broken.
Such sentiments were later succinctly summarized by Maria Edgeworth in Moral Tales For Young People by Miss Edgeworth (1806), Vol 1, Second Edition, p. 86:
… the diminutive chains of habit, as somebody says, are scarcely ever heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.
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