No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.
What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more than ourselves into a world so fundamentally unworthy.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.
With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.
We should not burden a sitting president with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecutions.
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Conservatives in Government must make the case that lowering the tax burden boosts economic growth and leads to an increase in tax revenues.
Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.
Married life has become to many a necessary burden, but a burden that is shed very easily.
True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.
Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.