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  • One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.

    Heart   Hands   Padlocks  
    Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.228
  • Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.

    Heart   Sleep   Night  
    J. M. Coetzee (2009). “Summertime: Fiction”, Viking Press
  • Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

    Ocean   Secret   Padlocks  
  • Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

    Keys   Mind   Padlocks  
    "Don McLeroy Leaves Creationist Comment: Evolution Can’t Explain 'Biochemical Complexity'". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. January 30, 2013.
  • Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

    "The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha".
  • Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

    Men   Yale   People  
    George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

    Mind   Padlocks   Talent  
    'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 161
  • The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!

    Voice   Brain   Padlocks  
  • I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

    Mom   Children   Home  
  • Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.

    Keys   Hands   Years  
  • Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

    Keys   Padlocks   Speech  
  • You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

    Frank Adams, Myles Horton (1975). “Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander”, p.133, John F. Blair, Publisher
  • Wedlock is a padlock.

    John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.31
  • This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names.

    Spiritual   Keys   Names  
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