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Bears Quotes - Page 15

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

"Fables (Book V)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

C. S. Lewis (2005). “The wisdom of Narnia”

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson”, p.286

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P