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  • They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them.
  • I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
  • They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
  • I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - 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
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Herodotus Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Joaquin Miller Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
    Joaquin Miller
     
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  • Alan Cohen Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside
    ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover
    that the gold we sought, we already are.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Robertson Davies He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Eric Hoffer Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Martin Luther My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • Leigh Hunt Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Anne Boleyn O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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  • William Shakespeare O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anne Bronte Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • William C. Bryant Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Martin Luther 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
     
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