"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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"When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen."
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"Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke."
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"Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own."
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"The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance."
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"Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it."
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