"Subduer" Quotes from Famous Books
... off that first lasso which not only fetters, but chokes those whom it can hold, so that they give themselves up trembling and breathless to the great soul-subduer, who has them by the windpipe had settled a brief creed for herself, in which love of the neighbor, whom we have seen, was the first article, and love of the Creator, whom we have not seen, grew out of this as its natural development, being ... — The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) |