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“My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.”

“So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.”

Ifs Children Fun Sweet Broken Highest Shadow Treats Bounds Circles Passing Passings Being True Plates Easter Stairs Shadow Of Death Broken Family

Author:Gerhard E Frost

“What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.”

Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

“..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.”

Source: The Wanderer Case: The Speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

World Book Bigs Used Broken Ideals Cat Window Tables Sticks Bounds Heavy Flats Steady Thick Volume Finest Old Fashioned Leather Noisy Atlas

Author:Mark Twain

“The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A trailing plant with flowers like white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. "They cannot conquer for ever!" said Frodo.”

Ifs Said Eye Stars White Flower Hair Broken Kings Gold Plant Bounds Conquer Fallen Silver Yellow Reverence Hollow Foreheads Brows Frodo Crevice

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.”

Heart Enough Silence Broken Bounds Proof Sensibility Marianne Dashwood

Author:Jane Austen

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”

Source: Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)