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  • We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light.

    Christian   Taken   Self  
  • This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

    War   People   Ordinary  
  • 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.

    John Ford, Alexander Dyce, William Gifford (1965). “Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble”
  • Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England must once again bow down her fair neck to his proud usurping yoke and foot.

    Believe   Feet   Bows  
    Source: www.libertymagazine.org
  • The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

    Gun   Government   Europe  
  • The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.

    Christian   Jesus   Guilt  
  • The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. For the yoke that was weighing upon them and the burden upon their shoulders, thou hast broken in pieces O God.

    Land   Light   People  
  • O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh

    Stars   Yoke   World  
    'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102
  • Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

    Yield   Mind   Triumph  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.504
  • The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

    Latin   Yoke   Tribes  
  • Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

    Time   Yoke  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth:: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In Two Volumes”, p.232
  • Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

    Healing   Yield   Hands  
  • In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

    Education   Yoke   Bulls  
  • All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

    Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”
  • We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.

  • he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

    Reading   Writing   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.397
  • You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

    Buddhism   Light   Yoke  
  • 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?

    Freedom   Eye   Yoke  
  • Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

    Two   Voice   Waiting  
    William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • 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 to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.

    Father   Heart   Loss  
    George MacDonald (2016). “The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works”, p.90, VM eBooks
  • The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

    Blessing   Self   Giving  
  • Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

    Yoke   Slavery  
  • Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!

    Men   Rights   Law  
  • Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

    Oxen   Land   Yoke  
  • Grandmas can shed the yoke of responsibility, relax and enjoy their grandchildren in a way that was not possible when they were raising their own children. And they can glow in the realisation that here is their seed of life that will harvest generations to come.

    Erma Bombeck (2011). “At Wit's End”, p.154, Fawcett
  • Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

    Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
  • In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

    Summer   Art   Army  
  • 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.

  • The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

    Yoke   Want   Moments  
    Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press
  • 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 for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

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