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Light burthens long borne growe heavie.

 
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When all sinnes growe old covetousnesse is young.

 
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"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.

 
Bernard of Clairvaux
 

Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not. If your brother sin against you lay not hold of it by the handle of his injustice, for by that it may not be borne: but rather by this, that he is your brother, the comrade of your youth; and thus you will lay hold on it so that it may be borne. (174).

 
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An unaffected man in a negative light
Could not have borne his labor nor have died
Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.

 
Wallace Stevens
 

A picture must possess a real power to generate light ... for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

 
Henri Matisse
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