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• And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.

  Robert Treat Paine

  Son, Sea, Earth

  Robert Treat Paine (1812). “The Works in Verse and Prose”, p.247

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• I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Philosophy, Humble

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Courage, Fruit

  "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracián, §4, 1647.

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• In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Real, Names

  Speech in Washington, D.C., March 26, 1966.

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• Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Loyal, May, Fruit

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Running, Horse

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Diversity, Social Justice

  Essais bk. 3, ch. 2 (1580)

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• There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Past, Names

  "Revue Scientifique". Book by Louis Pasteur, 1871.

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• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  God, Giving, Soul

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• From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

  William Ames

  Spiritual, Prayer, Hearing

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• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  Isaac Hayes

  Rose, Thorns, Accepting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

  John Milton

  Able, Blind, Miserable

  John Milton, George Burnett (1809). “The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued)”, p.357

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• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Science, Facts

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

  Josh Billings

  Fear, Ice, Anxiety

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• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Men, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

  Rick Bass

  Mountain

  Rick Bass (1997). “The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

  Nat King Cole

  Sight, Feelings, Complexes

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• The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

  Sid Vicious

  Dirty, Silly, Naughty

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• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  Moliere

  Pockets, Literature, Praise

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• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  Christopher Morley

  Christian, Anxiety, Literature

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• The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Second Amendment

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• If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Rights, Tests

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

  Thom Yorke

  Son, Age, Want

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• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Dust, Sky

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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