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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. -- Martin Luther
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. -- Yunus Emre
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots? -- Saadi
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. -- Charles Kingsley
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. -- Desmond Tutu
I think that the internet is a beast of burden. -- Matthew Healy
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. -- Saadi
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. -- Saint Augustine
I have reached zero tolerance for the cruelty against our animal brothers. If we are to nuture our culture, let's begin with the animals who have been nothing but our beasts of burden for so long. -- Rikki Rockett
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. -- Rebecca Solnit
I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me. -- Shaun White
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. -- Venerable Bede

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