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He grew, and grew, A star-bright sign of fated empery; And all conspiring omens led him on To lofty purpose and pre-eminence. The mountain eagles, towering in their pride, Stoop'd at his beck and flock'd about his path, Like the small birds by wintry famine tamed; Or with their dusky and expansive wings Shaded and fann'd him as he slept at noon. The lightnings danced before him sportively, And shone innocuous as the pale cold moon In the clear blue of his celestial eye.
Hartley Coleridge
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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.


— 1855  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 52.

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These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

vince cable

— Comment's on hedge funds, 17 September 2008.

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'Twould ring the bells of HeavenThe wildest peal for years,If Parson lost his sensesAnd people came to theirs,And he and they togetherKnelt down with angry prayersFor tamed and shabby tigersAnd dancing dogs and bears,And wretched, blind, pit ponies,And little hunted hares.

Ralph Hodgson

— "The Bells of Heaven", p. 25.

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

washington irving

— "Philip of Pokanoket : An Indian Memoir".
— A more extensive statement not found as such in this work is attributed to Irving in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) edited by Roycroft Shop:

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The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

charles james napier

— Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars (p. 27-31)

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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

jean rostand

— Jean Rostand (1962). The substance of men. Doubleday. p. 19. 

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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.

r. a. salvatore

— The Demon Apostle (1999) [Random House Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN 0-345-39154-3], p. 210
— Elbryan Wyndon

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And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.

maurice sendak

— Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004):

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In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

bertrand russell

— Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers.

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For leaves and men the same Our time is frail and brief, Cruelty has not been tamed Nor fairness worth belief


— "The Tree of Life"

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.

washington irving

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One can't get to know people well here; the social life is amusing but superficial. However, remember that I am just a savage, from the jungles (of New Guinea where he had sailed and worked as a government clerk)! Perhaps when I am tamed, I will jump through the social hoops, too.

errol flynn

— Spoken to M.G. Hart, writer, after his success as "Captain Blood," about being a newcomer to Hollywood, for magazine article Silver Screen, January 1936

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'Twould ring the bells of heaven The widest peal for years, If Parson lost his senses And people came to theirs, And he and they together Knelt down with angry prayers For tamed and shabby tigers And dancing dogs and bears, And wretched, blind, pit ponies, And little hunted hares.

Ralph Hodgson

— 1917  'Bells of Heaven'.

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