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• I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.309, Vintage

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• You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value... The baby you hold in your arms will grow as quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Art, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

  David Gray

  Rain, Fall, Gold

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• But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary to go on, and takes stock of where it's been and where it's going. During these gloomy pauses, we often discover parts of ourselves we never knew we possessed, talents that, properly activated, enrich our lives.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Grief, Soul, Suffering

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• On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
  Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
  Toiling and climbing to the very close,
  The weary Body, longing for repose,
  On the gained level of the day's ascent,
  Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

  Abraham Coles

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

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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 too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Men, Soul

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

  George du Maurier

  Sweet, Lying, Past

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• The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sea

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2659, Bantam

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• Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Aging, Masculinity

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• And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

  Francis Quarles

  Childhood, Age, One Day

  Francis Quarles (1807). “Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe”, p.30

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• During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

  Mika

  Kings, Fear, Writing

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• How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mean, Light, Practice

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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• Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Artist, Years

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• I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; ye must needs have it: all other things, as houses, lands, children, husband, friends, country, credit, health, wealth, honour, may be wanted ; but heaven is your one thing necessary, the good part that shall not be taken from you. See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy; for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory; many are lying dead by the way, that were slain with security.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Letting Go, Country, Children

  "Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters".

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• I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Desire, Hints, May

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• Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

  George Whitefield

  Inspirational, Softball, Comfort

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1839). “Memoirs of Rev. George Whitefield”, p.326

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• And sometimes when I am weary,
  When the path is thorny and Wild,
  I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight,
  Back to the eyes that smiled.
  And pray that a wreath like a rainbow
  May slip from the beautiful past,
  And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love
  And keep me, and hold me fast.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Life, Beautiful, Sweet

  Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader”, A K PressDistribution

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• We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Children, Honor

  "Obama Speaks at Selma's "Bloody Sunday" 50th Anniversary" by Natalie Stone, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 7, 2015.

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• Days of absence, sad and dreary,
  Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
  Days of absence, I am weary;
  She I love is far away.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  "Day of Absence". Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.

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• When the enemy is at ease, be able to weary him; when well fed, to starve him; when at rest, to make him move. Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Moving

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter VI · Weaknesses and Strengths, 2003.

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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 arts by which a big book is made.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.183, Canongate Books

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Cycling, Machines, World

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• We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity.

  Henry Scougal

  Letting Go, Children, Hate

  Henry Scougal (1775). “The life of God in the soul of man. Or, The nature and excellency of the Christian religion. And An account of the beginnings and advances of a spiritual life. 2 letters [by H. Scougal. With a preface by G. Burnet].”, p.66

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