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"I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life."
"...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family."
"There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things."
"The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant."
"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do."
"The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive"
"Better to face the bear than run from it."
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."
"This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part."
"Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator."
"A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me."
"Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable."
"Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to."
"The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others."
"One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen."
"Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe."
"Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!"
"Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding."
