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Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet… — Richard Lovelace

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Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free; Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace
To Althea, From Prison · 1649
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Nature of freedomFreedom
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1649
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Richard Lovelace
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Lovelace, Richard. "To Althea, from Prison." Lucasta. London: William Hazlitt, 1649, I. 25.

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