"It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal."
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"No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."
"Bears don't live on Park Avenue."
"We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face."
"No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it."
"The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind."
"For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!"
"If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him."
"Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man."
"The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it."
"There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune."
"Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it."
"Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another."
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me."
"One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery."
""Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance."
"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
"Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
"I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk."
"Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune."