free oneself
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Now, when a thought has become an obsession, there is practically only one way to free oneself from it, and that is by speech.
From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie
One unacquainted with the course of the duties of Emancipation revolves like a wheel between birth and death, unable to free oneself from that fate.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
It needs but a moment to free oneself from all one's troubles.
From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.
The injunction to free oneself from sense and strive upwards by means of knowledge, remained; but the wings of the thinking mind bore it only to the entrance of the sanctuary.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
A connection of the heart becomes then a veritable torment, from which it is desirable to free oneself as quickly as possible.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
