Quotes with weariness

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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • John Ruskin Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson Exercise is labor without weariness.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • David Grayson Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Rose Kennedy I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Anais Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cyril Connolly The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Eric Hoffer The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Bob Moses There is a weariness... from constant attention to the things you are doing, the struggle of good against evil.
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  • Blaise Pascal Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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