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• A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

  William Blake

  Animal, Heaven, Humanity

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)

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• Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Home, Cages, Life Is

  Getting Married (1911) preface "Hearth and Home"

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• Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

  Scott Lynch

  Wall, Angel, Iron

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

  Maya Angelou

  Taken, Doubt, Caged Birds

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.28, Modern Library

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• A forest bird never wants a cage.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Bird, Want

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Prayer, Heart, Wings

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

  Thorolf Rafto

  Freedom, Bird, Human Rights

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• Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “Camino Real: A Play”, p.51, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

  Stephen King

  Friendship, Letting Go, Song

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

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• My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Long, Devil, Roaring

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.86, Broadview Press

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• Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

  Peter V. Brett

  Home, People, Coward

  Peter V. Brett (2015). “The Demon Cycle 3-Book Bundle: The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War”, p.508, Del Rey

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• My body cheerfully informed me that he felt really good pressed against me like that, all hard muscles and smooth contours and ominous bulges. My body liked the air of barely leashed strength and caged mayhem he was giving off. My body thought he smelled really good, like heat and coffee and electricity. My body was going to get me killed.

  Karen Chance

  Coffee, Air, Giving

  Karen Chance (2013). “Tempt the Stars: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.44, Penguin

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• Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Running, Sweat, Hair

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• We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that we can see and take some comfort from, or else they have no use at all. Without that, they are like the endless pacings of a caged animal. If they are not madness itself, then they are a prelude to it.

  John Connolly

  Animal, Comfort, Purpose

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Bars, Feels

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• Chad had prowled over to her, and she felt good caged in between those powerful arms, but when he kissed her flushed forehead and then the tip of her nose, she lost a little of herself forever.

  J. Lynn

  Powerful, Forever, Noses

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• The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Religious, Reality, Spurgeon

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• Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.

  Veronica Roth

  Powerful, Animal, Truth Is

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Insurgent Collector's Edition (Enhanced Edition)”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Keys, Insanity, Lions

  "Fictional character: Sloan". "Wanted", www.imdb.com. June 12, 2008.

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• I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

  Arthur Darvill

  Bird, Stealing, Ifs

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

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• I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Bird, Feels, Alas

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Jail, Feelings

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• A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Integrity, Patriotic, Men

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