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“One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.”

Should Trying Action Suffering Results Lord Grace Bears Praying Circumstances Blame Forbearance Blaming Others

Author:Sarada Devi

“Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.”

Has Beens Whole Law Names Bears Blame Schemes Calamity

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.”

Thinking Way War Happens Found Causes Party Situation Bears Conflict Roots Blame Irrational Catastrophe Way Of Thinking Wrong Way Root Cause Causes Of Conflict

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!”

Source: Zoe: The History of Two Lives

“It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.”

Men Should Use Evil Bears Blame Ill Fitting Intemperance Not Fitting

Author:Isocrates

“Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.”

Giving Heart Children Reason Grief Fire Arms Bears Blame No Reason

Book:The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!”

Men Stuff Loss He Man Materials Bears Murder Pressure Blame Shock Aviation Load Great Aviation Let Down

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.”

Community Bears Blame International Division International Community

Author:Kofi Annan

“Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.”

Wells America Culture Bears Walking Blame Lifestyle Pounds Excess Food Culture

Author:Andrew Weil

“I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear.”

Thinking Would Be Bears Blame Dancing

Author:Demetri Martin

“When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.”

Bears Blame Burden

Author:T. J. Miller

“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”

People World Trying Years Littles Made Matter Jobs Loses Sin Bears Civilization Late Happenings Years Ago Blame Contribution Too Late Reporters Nazi True You Willful Ignorance

Book:Dream of Scipio

Source: Dream of Scipio

“I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.”

Ifs Has Beens Hands Song Courses House Silence Doors Keys Bears Bird Blame Faults If I Could Fly Away

Book:The Notebooks of Robert Frost

Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost

“Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.”

Thinking Able Bears Blame

Author:Winston Churchill

“Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.”

Fear Realizing Tree Bears Summer Spring Praise Blame Fruit Winter Seeking Naked Autumn

Author:Khalil Gibran