Bear Quotes
2639 quotes by 1769 authors
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear…
— Peter Matthiessen
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who…
— Candace Pert
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
— Hosea Ballou
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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education,…
— Jimmy Carter
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
— William Shenstone
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Some family trees bear an enormous crop of nuts.
— Wayne Huizenga
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us,…
— Philip Neri
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
— Seneca the Younger
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Every woman knows that if she were free, she would never bear an unwished-for child nor think of murdering one before its birth.
— Victoria Woodhull
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Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death - the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
— Simone Weil
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All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the…
— Mao Zedong
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
— May Sarton
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which…
— Augustus
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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