Yoke Quotes

• In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Savages, Bulls

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [271]

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• It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Jesus, Understanding, Doctrine

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.812

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• The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Bears, Burden

  Edwin Louis Cole (2001). “Treasure: uncovering patterns and principles that create prosperity”

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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Lying, Men

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

  William Shakespeare

  Yield, Mind, Triumph

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.504

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• Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

  Aeschylus

  Slavery

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• 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 my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

  Davy Crockett

  Party, Hands, Liberty

  Davy Crockett, Richard Penn Smith (1923). “The autobiography of David Crockett”

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• How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

  Jean Racine

  Sweet, Home, New Home

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• Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sympathy, Christian, Pain

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• 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.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Influence

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

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• Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Loss, Bears

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1419, Barbour Publishing

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• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

  Robert Herrick

  Ties, Firsts, Necks

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• Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Society, Body

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.213, Routledge

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• Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Inevitable, Provoking

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 8

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• Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Mean, Warfare, Band

  1833 General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy, section 4.

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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 punished most, who most obey.

  Matthew Prior

  Love, Anger, Heart

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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

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, World, Flesh

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

  Madame de Stael

  Bows, Rebellious, Sooner Or Later

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• The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

  John Jay Chapman

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Lying

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there.

  Laurence Olivier

  Kindness, Boredom, Comfort

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• 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.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Yield, Hands

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• Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Writing, Men

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• With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

  John Doolittle

  War, People, Vision

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• We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Bending, Bows, Suits

  Elisabeth Elliot (1989). “On Asking God why”, Fleming H Revell Company

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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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Justice, Acting, World

  Fourth of July Address at Independence Hall, delivered 4 July 1962, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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