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Bears Quotes - Page 9

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

"Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.

Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.30

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”