William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke."
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Yoke
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Edwin Louis Cole
Author, Speaker
"The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear."
Aeschylus
Playwright
"Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?"
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"How good is God! How sweet his yoke!"
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"O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh"
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"Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke."
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"A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance."
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"To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure."
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"Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention."
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"One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it."
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"Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along."
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"Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty."
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"Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke."
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"No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy."
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"That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing."
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"Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along."
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"Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart."
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"The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness."
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"Delivered from the galling yoke of time."
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"I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it."
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"Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke."
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"In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]"
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"The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."
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