Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or bearing:
“I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great worlds altar-stairs
That slope thro darkness up to God,”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)