"Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves."
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"For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats."
"To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare."
"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."
"Each of us bears his own Hell."
"The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow."
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
"And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled."
"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live"
"To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well."
"There is no ship now that can bear me hence"
"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
"Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold."
"For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit."
"On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best."
"Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses."
"Hate is too heavy a burden to bear."
"But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering."
"And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other."
"See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions."