And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a
wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Ezekiel (ch. X, v. 10)
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In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Robert Burns
Quotes , Source: Epistle from Esopus to Maria, in Chambers' "Burns' Life and Work", vol. IV, p. 54
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Whene'er with haggard eyes I view
This dungeon that I'm rotting in,
I think of those companions true
Who studied with me at the U-
Niversity of Gottingen.
- George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,
George Canning
Quotes , Source: Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison, found in "The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin"
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Prison'd in a parlour snug and small,
Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Retirement (l. 493)
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"And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison
in a prison."
Charles Dickens
Quotes , Source: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (ch. XL)
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That which the world miscalls a jail,
A private closet is to me.
. . . .
Locks, bars, and solitude together met,
Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.
William Kendrick
Quotes , Source: Falstaff's Wedding (act I, sc. 2)
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Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage,
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage.
Richard Lovelace
Quotes , Source: To Althea, from Prison (IV)
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Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates--the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
[Fr., Doubles grilles a gros cloux,
Triples portes, forts verroux,
Aux ames vraiment mechantes
Vous representez l'enfer;
Mais aux ames innocentes
Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.]
Paul Pelisson (Peleisson) Fontanier
Quotes , Source: Written on the walls of his cell in the Bastile, about 1661
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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, iii)
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I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world;
And, for because the world is populous,
And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at V, v)
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