Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.
If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. '
This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.
I bear a little more than I can bear.
ManBearPig, half man, half bear, half pig
It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one.
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.
When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.
I can bear a lot but not that pall
A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.
If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.