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LEV GROSSMAN The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
ADOLF HITLER The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that b...
JENNIFER LOPEZ The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering th...
JENNIFER LOPEZ If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead ...
ANNE FRANK Those who can bear all can dare all.
LUC DE CLAPIERS Those who can bear all can dare all.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Those who can bear all can dare all.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
BILLY GRAHAM Madame, bear in mind That princes govern all things--save the wind.
VICTOR HUGO To bear a child or to get married is not the primary goal for a lady who wants to become successful ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I rescued Katie, a black Labrador retriever from West Union, Ohio and at about the same time my husb...
LONI R. BURCHETT All we are asked to bear we can bear
ELIZABETH GOUDGE Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
MICHELANGELO I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
LALLA WARD They would draw the designs and then my mom sent them in to Build-A-Bear and Build-A-Bear put them o...
SARAH KURZU Show me your memories of the kiss.” I close my eyes. The heat creeps up my cheeks, which is silly ...
SUSAN EE Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON The Bear and the Maiden Fair


A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and b...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing . . . this enterprise is for the young; for those who can ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
ROBERT BLAIR He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky;...
J.K. ROWLING They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
BIBLE Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe / Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky.
JOHN BETJEMAN Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from c...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ I really like you, Midori. A lot.”
“How much is a lot?”
“Like a spring bear,” I ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.
WERNER HERZOG For the child of God, death is when the earth recedes and heaven opens up.
UNKNOWN For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these ...
BIBLE Another's name my trail may bear,
But still I keep, in waste and wood.
My Joy because the ...
ARTHUR GUITERMAN Dwight was everything the Bear ever said he would be.
DON SHULA You must accept your cross; if you bear it courageously it will carry you to heaven.
JOHN VIANNEY Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind....
SWAMI SIVANANDA My punishment is greater than I can bear
BIBLE And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.
BIBLE A wounded spirit who can bear?
BIBLE There is one requirement for any Bear's Den bear, and that is being a happy bear.
ROSE MASKEWIT Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
THOMAS KEMPIS Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
THOMAS A KEMPIS You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
CASSANDRA CLARE A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk benea...
FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up you...
SOPHOCLES I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christi...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?'
'He's a teddy bear,' I said.
ILONA ANDREWS The Bear and the Two Travelers Two men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on the...
AESOP The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
SENECA Some things you must always be unable to bear.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The bear was still hovering over the top of her body.
DAN HICKS Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Inj...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Remember, my son, that any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN This is heaven my child.
SANTOSH KALWAR Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all th...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds --- all they have had, all ...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE My heart wasn't big enough to hold everything I felt, but I couldn't bear the thought of asking him ...
JODI MEADOWS If you’re going to give up after few attempts, bear it in mind that your struggles are going to be...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in...
MARIAN ANDERSON Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
HOSEA BALLOU For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W. H. AUDEN Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all ...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?
COMPTON GAGE Dear brothers, I am still not all I should be but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one ...
BIBLE Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember
SENECA I love you so much I'd fight a bear for you. Well not a grizzly bear because they have claws, and no...
ANONYMOUS Whether we're a sport hunter or a bear viewer or we're Timothy Treadwell, it's all the same to the b...
NICK JANS For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the ...
LOUISE ERDRICH Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had,...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE 'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full fea...
T. J. MILLER We all have our crosses to bear.
DENNIS LEHANE I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
JONATHAN LETHEM You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one c...
GENE MAUCH And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
BIBLE I'm a Caucasian American Jew. These are all things that make up who I am.
GREG RUCKA They believed what (the original tracker) identified as places that would have been a boy crawling u...
JUSTIN SMITH In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters ...
RENATA ADLER Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the ch...
REBECCA EANES The tusks that clashed in mighty brawlsOf mastodons, are billiard balls.The sword of Charlemagne the...
ARTHUR GUITERMAN Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
JAMES ALLEN Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
JAMES LANE ALLEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th...
TIM O'BRIEN The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the dee...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Bear in mind that humility is not timidity.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A bear has a coat. A coat is like a blanket. If you went to bed and couldn't cover up what would hap...
BILL RENNER And rely on the Mighty, the Merciful, / Who sees you when you stand up.
QURAN We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob...
WILLIAM BOOTH Bear and forbear.
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Bear and forbear.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO I can't bear Catholicism.
GEORGE MICHAEL

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SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
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SOPHOCLES There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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SOPHOCLES Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
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And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
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To speak dis...
SOPHOCLES The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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SOPHOCLES A man growing old becomes a child again.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
SOPHOCLES A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SOPHOCLES All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SOPHOCLES There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
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SOPHOCLES For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
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SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
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SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
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Big w...
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SOPHOCLES A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
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SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
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SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
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SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
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SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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SOPHOCLES Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune
SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
SOPHOCLES Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES Even a poor man can receive honors.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
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SOPHOCLES Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
SOPHOCLES The only crime is pride.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom
SOPHOCLES No honest man will argue on every side
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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Y...
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