Wearisome Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural…
— Beverley Nichols
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There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which…
— Robert Browning
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There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong…
— Robert Southwell
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Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend…
— Edward Abbey
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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it…
— William Tyndale
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As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a…
— James Payn
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something…
— J. D. Greear
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and,…
— Adelbert von Chamisso
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Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.
— Boris Spassky
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There has to be a song. There are too many dark nights, too many troublesome days, and too many wearisome miles. Somewhere deep in the…
— Bob Benson
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Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
— Eglantyne Jebb
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
— Oscar Wilde
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is…
— Aldous Huxley
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It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
— Pierre Loti
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What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
— Emma Donoghue
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