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“Under loves heavy burden do I sink.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“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” - 1876

“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” - 1965

“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” - 44 BC

“First, there is the burden of pride. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.” A. W. Tozer, “The Pursuit of God” - 1948

“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” - 1984

“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” - 2010

“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” - 20 January 1961

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