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• There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Lakes, Religion

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• I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, Difficult, Company

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Memories, Moon, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Country, Pie, Reform

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• Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Two, Enemy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Thinking, Order

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.

  Peter Heller

  Life, Beautiful, Reality

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.50, Vintage

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• It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Self, People

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• What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

  Max Lucado

  Sleep, Kissing, Giving

  Max Lucado (2009). “3:16: The Numbers of Hope”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Art, Facts, Crosses

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• I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

  Winston Churchill

  Responsibility, Action, Servant

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.365, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Rose, Thorns, Finest

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.

  David Mamet

  Player, Gambling, Self

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Solitude, May

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.27

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• The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Solitude, Mind, Source

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Anger, Character

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Attachment, Bitterness

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2944, Delphi Classics

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• I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?

  Alice Meynell

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• Trees in winter lose their leaves. Some trees may even fall during storms, but most stand patiently and bear their fortune.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Fall, Winter, Tree

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Influence

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• He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Art, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

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• As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Heart, Agony

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .

  Orson Pratt

  Faith, Mind, Principles

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• A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will do for the tragedians, not for life.

  Philemon

  Wine, Men, Purple

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• The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland.

  Mary McAleese

  Heart, Bridges, Two

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