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“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 us; blessings and curses are abolished.”

Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume

“The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.”

Men Burden Afterlife Virtuous After Death

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden

Source: The Poetical Works of 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 opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.”

Men Should Dies Subjects Burden Proof Theology Opposition Throwing Invincible Dogmatism Burden Of Proof

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.”

Two Bears Honor Casts Burden Envy Honour Load

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“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.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Care Sorrow Burden Great Things Pluck

Book:Euripides

Source: Euripides

“Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.”

Evil Bears Faults Burden True Evil

Book:The complete Greek tragedies

Source: The complete Greek tragedies

“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 one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”

Men Long Age Lying Dies Prayer Willing Draws Abuse Burden Old Age Old Man Growing Old Willing To Die

Author: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.”

Men Needs White Son Burden Empires White Man Imperialism Exile Captives Your Son

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman”

May Heaven Easy Prayer Burden Grants Pregnant Exit Entrances Pregnant Women

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.”

Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh

“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.”

People Thinking Helping Knowledge Mystery Burden Ease Heat Speculation Fever

Book:Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

“Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.”

Made Ideas Ready Burden Shoulders Cowardice

Author:Francois Mauriac

“It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.”

Ifs Doe Christian Law Christ Christianity Bears Members Crosses Refuse Burden Deny Fellowship

Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.”

Ifs Want Said Originals Tables Burden One Time Cartoon Syndicate

Author:Mort Walker

“That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can be of great beauty, but they are rarely built for eternity, and frequently they cannot tolerate too heavy a burden without collapsing.”

Love Loneliness Building Succeed Built Eternity Burden Heavy Bridges Shore Tolerate Building Bridges

Book:Feminine Psychology

Source: Feminine Psychology

“Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.”

Want Today President Chance Answers Offers Fame Office Glory Privilege Burden Presidency

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.”

Problem Burden Being Irish

Author:Roddy Doyle

“I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.”

Men Should Wells Government Suffering Rights Equal Should Have Independence Burden Favors Proportion Declaration Equal Rights Men Women Declaration Of Independence

Author:Leland Stanford

“It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.”

Important Lost Burden Turning Points

Author:David Jeremiah

“When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.”

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Prayer is a means of sharing the burden, which relieves pressure, as you tell your worries and concerns to someone who will listen and won't judge, no matter what you say. Praying is like handing the problem over to someone else as you talk it out. Then you can tune in for guidance and a different perspective that will exude heartfelt energy. When you pray, you are exposing your real self and extending sincere, loving energy to yourself. It doesn't matter if your words are fancy or plain, and there is no way to do it right or wrong. Prayer is about opening your heart and being sincere.”

“Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.”

Light Attitude Burden

Author:Ovid

“Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.”

Trying Night Money Mad Investing Burden Shoulders Hardest Every Night

Author:Jim Cramer

“Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.”

Love Feels Light Flower Pure Ego Burden Pure Love Heaviness

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.”

Firsts Use Lasts Science Memories Subjects Evidence Forgotten Fishes Burden Multitudes Obscure Ink Explaining

Book:The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

Source: The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

“So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.”

States Government Church Pay Taxes Benefits Property Burden Protection Proportion Expenses Receiving Taxation

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events.”

People Problem Culture Attitude Plans Childhood Events Built Burden Ritual Leisure Timeless

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.”

Has Beens States Together Responsibility Rights Broken Burden Agency Emphasis Fragments

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.”

Virtue Patience Burden Complaining Ass

Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

“God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.”

Men Love Needs Should Bears Burden Love Each Other

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.”

Speech Burden Beast Lit Beast Of Burden

Author:Yunus Emre

“Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of government from the backs of the people and keep this nation, under God, a citadel of freedom standing as an example to all the world.”

People World Government Moving Spirit Nations Example Standing Burden Lifts Citadels

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”

Country Action Politics Progress Politician Instinct Burden Corruption Cowardice Refuge Packs Incompetence Begets Clique Drawbacks Disloyalty

Author:Soong May-ling

“The burden of disease falls on the poor.”

Fall Poor Disease Burden

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.”

People Reason Able Stuff Pay Cutting Imagine Missing Tvs Internet Phones Burden Packages Cables Missing Something

Author:Jeffrey Bewkes

“Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.”

People Happens Running Effort Rewards Burden Things Happen Horrible Horrible Things

Author:Tammy Bruce

“I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.”

Knows Want Feels Children Book Sometimes Problem Thirds Burden Fourth Grim Children's Books

Author:Beverly Cleary

“If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.”

People Ifs Persons Lasts Realizing Support Rich Greater Burden Passing Passings Pockets Pounds Escaping Clutch Depriving Rich Person

Author:Clive Anderson

“Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.”

Way Years Choices Born Company Cutting Tvs Findings Edges Albums Entertainment Burden Who We Are Rough Diamond Innovative Cutting Edge Tailors Diamond In The Rough Movies And Music

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.”

Thinking Needs Play Lasts Class Happened Streets Middle Wall Burden Decades Middle Class Bail Main Street

Author:Stephanie Cutter

“God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.”

Ideas States America United United States Diversity Blessed Burden Backgrounds

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.”

Thinking Fall Actors Directors Projects Scripts Burden Scales Shoulders

Author:Alexis Denisof

“Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.”

Community Lines Depends Bears Taxes Burden Unfair Competitors Bricks Mortar Sales Tax Tax Burden Bricks And Mortar

Author:Bill Delahunt

“Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Barack Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.”

Want Wells Break Rich Taxes Program Paid Burden Spending Eliminating Tax Breaks

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.”

Done Enough Grows Economy Demand Europe Remains Burden Debt Crush Southern Boost Competitiveness

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.”

Growing Up Our Lives Growing Generations Everyday Jew Burden Everyday Life Persecution Jewish Family

Author:Bruce Feiler

“The ocean, king of mountains and the mighty continents Are not heavy burdens to bear when compared To the burden of not repaying the world's kindness.”

World Inspirational Motivational Kindness Bears Kings Mountain Ocean Burden Heavy Continents Heavy Burdens Repaying

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.”

People Inspirational Answers Journey Fields Strange Hero Burden Unwilling

Author:Phil Ochs

“Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.”

People Able Bears Taxes Mass Instruments Burden Income Contribution Taxation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

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