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«It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Friendship
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«Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.»
«People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
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Absence,
Responsibility
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«Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear»
«Human kind cannot bear much reality.»
«One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.»
Author: William F. Buckley, Jr.
(Writer)
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«He who has why to live can bear almost any how»
«Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.»
«Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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