Yoke Quotes

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are… — Matthew Prior
In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. — William Shakespeare
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at… — Davy Crockett
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… — Mary Karr
how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though… — John Milton
O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms,… — William Shakespeare
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall… — Khalil Gibran
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what… — William Lloyd Garrison
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible… — John Green
I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I… — Melanie Benjamin
Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear… — William Shakespeare
Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peopleâ€™s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking… — Arundhati Roy
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and… — George MacDonald
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In… — William Shakespeare
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck… — George MacDonald
In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,… — Thomas Kyd
Delivered from the galling yoke of time. — William Wordsworth
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his… — Seneca the Younger
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. — Phyllis McGinley

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