"It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden"
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"I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens."
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"The crime of a mother is a heavy burden."
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"The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them."
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"Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked."
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"Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down."
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"Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind."
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"Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop."
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"Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy."
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"Don't live in the past and don't carry the past around like a burden."
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"Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you."
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"Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off."
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"It would be good if we bore one another's burdens."
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"American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves."
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"It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators."
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"We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden."
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"In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others."
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"Heaven suits the back to the burden."
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"I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do."
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"The old woman dies, the burden is lifted."
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