"One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes"
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"Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo"
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"If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."
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"Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old."
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"There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy."
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"All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others."
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"The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong."
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"The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times."
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"He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life."
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"Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden."
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"Children are not a burden."
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"Knowledge is no burden."
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"As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me."
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"you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you."
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"Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow."
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"If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you."
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"If you become a father, you're not doing things for yourself anymore. You're thinking about someone else. And that is not a burden."
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"The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes."
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