"Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot."
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"A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future."
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"I live an idle burden to the ground."
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"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
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"One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it."
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"Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings."
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"The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden."
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"[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory."
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"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen."
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"Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song."
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"Hate is too heavy a burden to bear."
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"Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden."
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"Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place."
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"Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone."
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"Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy."
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"For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?"
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"Let us help one another to bear our burdens."
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"Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry."
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"The burden becomes light that is shared by love."
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"To ease another's burden, help to carry it."
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