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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.

One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

Only time conquers time and its burdens.

Our love is our burden.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

Take a hard look at those things, which we needlessly turn into burdens, when they were meant to be blessings.

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.