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Edwin Markham

"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world."

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"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world."

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"Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance."

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"Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully."

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"None knows the weight of another's burden."

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"The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego."

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"We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff."

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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."

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"To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back."

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"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."

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"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."

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"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."

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"Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart."
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"To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life."
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"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."
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"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"
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"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"
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"There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own."
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"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."
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"Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world."
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