Bear Quotes

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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government -… — Carol Moseley Braun
If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you. — Thomas a Kempis
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. — Ben Jonson
While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. — Isak Dinesen
Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. — Samuel Johnson
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. — John Dryden
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. — Alexander Pope
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. — Euripides
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear. — Euripides
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven. — Sophocles
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm, That is the top of sovereignty — John Keats
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly… — Bill Veeck
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. — Kenneth Tynan
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood… — Simone Weil
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,… — Lenny Bruce
The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least… — Hannah Arendt
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila

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