“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“His bow, a light burden for glad shoulders, the boy Hylas bears.”
— Gaius Valerius Flaccus, book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 109–110
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