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«Awake, my soul, and with the sun / Thy daily stage of duty run; / Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise, / To pay thy morning sacrifice.»
Author: Thomas Ken | Keywords: joyful, pay off, shake off, sloth
«Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.»
«And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: shake off, that city
«And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.»
«I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven; / He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches: / Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: / Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.»
«And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: depart, shake, shake off
«He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: cast off, grape, olive, shake off, unripe
«I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live?»
«I am not that feather to shake offMy friend when he must need me.»
«It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion . . . and become the creature of the moment . . . known by no other title than The Gentleman in the Parlour!»

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