In a long journey straw weighs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He carries well to whom it weighs not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them. [ Martial ]
Do not insult calamity:
It is a barbarous grossness to lay on
The weight of scorn, where heavy misery
Too much already weighs men's fortunes down. [ Daniel ]
Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]
But wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects,
Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers,
Seizes the right, and holds it to the last. [ Young ]
Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
He that weighs the wind must have a steady hand. [ Proverb ]
The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were. [ Quarles ]
His exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. [ Seneca ]
One is very near being ungrateful when one weighs a service. [ Mme. de Flahaut ]
The benevolent man even weighs the grounds of his liberality. [ Proverb ]
One single positive weighs more. You know, than negatives a score. [ Prior ]
He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own. [ Bacon ]
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove; and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. [ Balzac ]