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“Let every nation know... whether it wishes us well or ill... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything had which nature makes inevitable.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age
“First, there is the burden of pride. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“No one is useless in this world . . . who lightens the burden of it for any one else.” Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his followers to keep up.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed...” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Under love's heavy burden do I sink.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“One always finds one's burden again.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.” Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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The Pursuit of God (1)
The Myth of Sisyphus (1)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1)
On Old Age (1)
Decoded (1)
Our Mutual Friend (1)