Quotes About Burden
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
~ Gerrit Smith
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The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.
~ Euripides
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You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.
~ Pythagoras
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
~ Georges Bataille
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
~ Jean-Francois de La Harpe
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The same thrust, pushing against a greatly reduced burden, would then yield acceleration that Lio had cheerfully described as 'near-fatal.' 'But it's okay,' he'd said, 'you'll black out before anything really bad happens to you.
~ Neal Stephenson
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Maybe that's what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can't—who shouldn't—share her problems with anyone else.
~ Neal Stephenson
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The implied responsibility placed upon the officer's shoulders by the subordinate's unhesitating willingness to follow orders is a withering burden to any officer with half a brain, and Shaftoe has more than once seen seasoned noncoms reduce green lieutenants to quivering blobs simply by standing before them and agreeing, cheerfully, to carry out their orders.
~ Neal Stephenson
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Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
~ Ned Vizzini
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Irene Redfield wished, for the first time in her life, that she had not been born a Negro. For the first time she suffered and rebelled because she was unable to disregard the burden of race. It was, she cried silently, enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race as well. It was a brutality, and undeserved.
~ Nella Larsen
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tell you, the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.
~ Nelson DeMille
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the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.
~ Nelson DeMille
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Let every nation know," declared Kennedy in his inaugural address, "that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~ Niall Ferguson
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En teoría el impuesto era pagado por los productores de los artículos afectados, pero en la práctica recaía sobre los consumidores, pues los productores se limitaban a agregar el impuesto a sus precios. Incluso el vaso de cerveza o whisky que consumía o cada pipa que fumaba estaban sujetos a impuestos. Como lo dijo Burns, su negocio era «oprimir al publicano y al pecador con las ruedas despiadadas de los impuestos interiores».
~ Niall Ferguson
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Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that "men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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the armor of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs is down.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Cudza zbroja albo spada ci z pleców, albo ci??y, albo gniecie
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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Poor devil! None of us can have the remotest idea of the agony it is to be despised and rejected of men. A cancer in the soul and then madness. The feeling of there being a curtain, more invisible than gauze, stronger than iron, between one's self and one's fellow man. To cry out of the abyss and to know that there will be no answer, that one is buried alive.
~ Nicholas Blake
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The more you own, the more it owns you, and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of having to take care of everything. I'm tired of things breaking and having to fix them. It adds stress, and frankly, I'm giving myself a break." In
~ Nicholas Sparks
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Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.
~ Krysten Ritter
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When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
~ Bartlett Sher
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But life in the fast lane took a toll on men who cared and it was eating Jonas one small piece at a time.
~ Christine Feehan
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It was the worst nightmare possible for a boy like Steele. He felt responsiblity, even when he was just very little. Something in him needed to help all of us.
~ Christine Feehan
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