Burden Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Believe, Bears, Illness

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• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

  King Edward VIII

  Responsibility, Impossible, Royalty

  Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936

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• If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.

  Richard V. Allen

  Country, Children, Love You

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• It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Intellectual, Economic, Social

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• Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Grief

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• The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Literature, Bears, Yoke

  Edwin Louis Cole (2001). “Treasure: uncovering patterns and principles that create prosperity”

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• Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Inspirational Life, Responsibility

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Feelings, Would Be, Want

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.104, Random House

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• I have only my own burden to bear.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Challenges, Bears, My Own

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.

  John Berger

  Photography, Memories, Cameras

  1978 New Statesman,17 Aug.

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• Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

  Russ Carnahan

  Feelings, Energy, Pumps

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• I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

  Leo Ornstein

  Writing, Thinking, Periods

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• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Donald Justice

  Journey, Land, Silence

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf

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• To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

  Aldrich Ames

  Agency, America, People

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• If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

  Edmund Barton

  Education, Taxation, Bears

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• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  Kamisese Mara

  Leadership, Government, Finals

  Letter to President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, en.wikiquote.org. December 5, 1987.

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• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Rights, Should Have

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• The burden of disease falls on the poor.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fall, Disease, Poor

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• There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

  Petrarch

  Pens, Lighters

  Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, April 28, 1373.

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• Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Son, Men, White Man

  "The White Man's Burden" st. 1 (1899)

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• I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Strong, Labor Day, Weak

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1912). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Bill Delahunt

  Bricks And Mortar, Community, Lines

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• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Richard Neal

  Alternatives, Benefits, Certain

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• 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.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Long, Creative, Inability

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge and bitterness.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Revenge, Hate

  Zig Ziglar (1998). “Breaking Through to the Next Level”

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