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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 85

Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

William Shakespeare, Richard Madelaine (1998). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.500

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1256, Delphi Classics

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.23

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.27, Ravenio Books

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.20, e-artnow sro

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

Thomas Hardy (2014). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.313, First Avenue Editions

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.35

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.58

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

"History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Samuel Richardson (1862). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...”, p.44

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.167

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV”, p.32

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

"New York's Governor And Mayor of New York City Address Concerns of the Damage". News conference, New York, transcripts.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.