Burden Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten…

— Anonymous

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

— Henry David Thoreau

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

— Aristotle

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can…

— Charlotte Bronte

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

— Tacitus

Men are more easy to repay you with injury then with benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— The 48 Laws Of Power

Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

— Denis Diderot

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

— Anonymous

“No matter how cleverly we disguise our anxieties they bear witness to the imperfect nature of the human heart. To be is to become.…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller

But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.

— Aristotle

“When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver,…

— Henry David Thoreau