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• I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe that this view is in the main correct, because so many phenomena can thus be grouped end explained.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Views, People

  Charles Darwin (1960). “Notebooks on Transmutation of Species”

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• Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Men, Library

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• It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.

  Theodore Gordon

  Sports, Years, Fishing

  Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”

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• Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things, compose our cares and our passions, and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride or design in their conversation.

  Jeremy Collier

  Disappointment, Book, Passion

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Luxury, Clothes

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• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

  James Parton

  Men, Romance, Mystery

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

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• Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Horse, Children

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• The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

  John Arlott

  Bye, Air, Umpires

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• I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Self, Down And, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
  Waiting for the May:
  Waiting for the pleasant rambles
  Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
  Where the woodbine alternating,
  Scent the dewy way;
  Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,
  Waiting for the May.

  Denis Florence MacCarthy

  Heart, Waiting, Scent

  Denis Florence MacCarthy “Poems”, Lulu.com

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Winter, Land

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• How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

  Christine de Pizan

  Husband, Suffering, Slave

  Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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• Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Long, People

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• You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Country, Sky, Looks

  Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”

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• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Tea

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

  Horace Mann

  Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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• Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Kings, People

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• That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

  William Wordsworth

  Blessed, Light, World

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 37

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• Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Stars, Mean, Home

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• When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of the movement of the world-machine established in our behalf by the best and most systematic builder of all, existed among the philosophers who had studied so exactly in other respects the minutest details in regard to the sphere.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Details, Machines

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dying, Hearing, Should

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• Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jobs, Stupid, Extraordinary Beauty

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• A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

  Dean Koontz

  Lines, Bitter, Misanthrope

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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