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Stone walls do not a prison make
- External constraints cannot imprison someone whose spirit and thoughts are free. This saying is taken from a poem, 鈥淭o Althea: From Prison,鈥 by the seventeenth-century English poet Richard Lovelace.
Example Sentences
Winnie counted carefully, while behind her counting, her mind sang, 鈥淪tone walls do not a prison make.鈥
Into her head came lines from an old poem: Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.
The artist Olive Wharry, held in the same place, quoted Richard Lovelace, writing: "Stone walls do not a prison make / Nor iron bars a cage."
The time will come when these pages鈥攊n their original, at least鈥攚ill be numbered among the proofs of the poet's statement that鈥 "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage: Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage."
And so they have not been jails to me, any more than they were to Lovelace: "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage."
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