Burden Quotes

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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. — Rabindranath Tagore
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. — Rabindranath Tagore
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this… — Marcus Aurelius
I was sort of like a kid in a candy store, realizing it was fun making beats without the perceived burden that every track I… — DJ Shadow
There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives… — Harry S. Truman
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens. — Walter Lippmann
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling. — Ambrose Bierce
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world. — Albert Schweitzer
Heaven suits the back to the burden. — Charles Dickens
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit… — John Burroughs
Shoulders are from God and burdens too. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. — Calvin Trillin
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. — Steve Leveen
Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits… — Seneca the Younger
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. — Ben Jonson
Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man. — John Dryden
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the… — Elbert Hubbard
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. — Euripides
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours. — Euripides
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not… — Euripides
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. — Rudyard Kipling

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