Best Weary Wisdom
453 Weary quotes by 337 unique authors
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
— Samuel Johnson
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Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices…
— Adelaide Anne Procter
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I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
— Horatius Bonar
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for…
— Paul Valery
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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
— Samuel Johnson
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
— Evelyn Waugh
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Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor…
— Epicurus
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without…
— George Sand
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When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when…
— Mao Zedong
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One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing…
— Criss Jami
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Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be…
— Peter Medawar
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Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.
— Matthew Barnett
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There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.
— Trevor Dunn
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Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm…
— Rickie Lee Jones
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Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die,…
— Martin Luther
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You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.
— Michael Cunningham
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Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to…
— Rebecca McCann
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.
— Charles Spurgeon
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He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some.
— William Shakespeare
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I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My…
— William Shakespeare
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With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.
— Thomas Hood
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Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting…
— Edwin Arnold
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