free oneself

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The very first thing in playing in public is to free oneself of all distrust in one's own powers.

From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman

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

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