Burden Quotes - Page 29

• We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden--that is human sympathy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Sympathy, Men, Comfort

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• The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Individual Effort, Support

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.25, Best Books on

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• Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Giving, Desire

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.565

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• Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Destiny, America, Soldier

  Letter to Oliver Downing. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 15, 1889.

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• Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

  Mo Udall

  Country, Strong, Believe

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Rights, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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• There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Flower, Butterfly, Simple

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• What you have is have equal rights, you don't have equal obligations. Not all Arab citizens have the same obligation, namely defending the country. That's important and it needs to be corrected. Part of the integration is also taking it on themselves the burden, if you will, or the obligation to defend their country.

  Moshe Arens

  Country, Rights, Important

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

  Benjamin Graham

  Cost, Financial, Great Depression

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter IX, The Cost of the Reservoir Plan, p. 114, 1937.

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• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Female

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.144, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.

  Mary Fulbrook

  History, Democracy, Republic

  Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

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• Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Hurt, Jobs, Nursing

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.82, Penguin

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• You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, Heart

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• A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt

  Dennis O'Neil

  Hurt, Men, People

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• Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

  Sam Ervin

  Light, Pathways, Heavy

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• The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

  Peter Marshall

  Self, Government, Creative

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• Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Home, Fame

  ""It's Time for a Change"". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Lying, Safety

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.211

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• There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it
  successful.

  John F. Kennedy

  Successful, Space, United States

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

  Narendra Modi

  Commitment, India, Needs

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