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.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.