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  • Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

    Sweet   Time   Journey  
    'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'
  • A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

    Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”
  • Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

    Hope   Cutting   Wings  
    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

    Children   Jealous   Kids  
  • The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

    Self   Liberty   Bondage  
    Florence L. Barclay (2012). “The Rosary”, p.168, The Floating Press
  • Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

    Farewell   Weight   Weary  
    William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Hour Glass”, p.17, Yokai Publishing
  • 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.

    Men   Romance   Mystery  
    James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30
  • A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

    Light   Noses   Might  
  • It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

    Nature   Heart   Men  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow
  • 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.

    Dying   Hearing   Should  
  • Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

    Prayer   Pain   Real  
    George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15
  • The incarnation of God is a necessity of human nature. If we reap and truly have a Father, we must be able to clasp His feet in our penitence, and to lean on His breast in our weary sorrowfulness.

    Father   Feet   Able  
  • After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

    Rain   4th Of July   Men  
    Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733
  • I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

    Self   Down And   Band  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.

    War   Thinking   Hands  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

    Twitter post from Nov 8, 2013
  • I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

    Heart   Humble   Hymns  
    William Wetmore Story, “Io Victis”
  • The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up And I said: Teacher, I’m weary of the turkeys That we have to draw every fall. May I draw a fox instead? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up once more and said: Teacher, My heart is falling asleep And it wants to wake up. It needs to be outside. Sit down, he said.

    Dream   Teacher   Fall  
    Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.27, Beacon Press
  • To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

    Beauty   Home   Hair  
    "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)
  • Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

    Men   Aging   Masculinity  
  • Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

    Would Be   Gone   Way  
    Charles Dickens (1872). “Our Mutual Friend”
  • Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

    Dream   Strong   Love You  
  • I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?

    "Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way" by Johann Christoph Arnold, (p. 155), 2000.
  • Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

    Death   Heart   Broken  
  • O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.

    Peace   Prayer   Blessed  
  • Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

    Jesus   Sleep   Angel  
  • Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

    Dream   Love You   Tired  
    'The End of the Road' (1924 song)
  • I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to my heavenly home and Father's house.

    Father   Home   Long  
    Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.113
  • Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

    Dog   Sleep   Night  
    Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225
  • Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

    Wise   Gentleman   World  
    Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, Simon and Schuster
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