#bear

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#after #bear #coffee #cream #friends

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#courage #defeat #earth #greatest #heart

How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet "You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh ↗

— A.A. Milne

#piglet #pooh-bear #winnie-the-pooh #love

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. ↗

— James Allen

#bear #fruit #good #good thoughts #thoughts

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#bear #earn #name #rejoice #reproach

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#bear #fruit #good #good thoughts #thoughts

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem. ↗

— Dillon Anderson

#aspects #bearing #desirable #domestic #facts

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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