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«Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.»
Author: William Drummond | Keywords: bridle, bridled, bridles
«You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.»
«He turn'd him right and round about / Upon the Irish shore; / And gae his bridle-reins a shake, / With adieu for evermore, / My dear,/ Adieu for evermore.»
«The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him»
«I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bridle, take heed
«Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? / Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bridle, double door
«My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Religion | Keywords: bridle, bridled, bridles
«The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses»

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