#weary

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#degree #good #ground #like #love

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. ↗

— Anne Boleyn

#bring #careful #death #ghost #me

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was. ↗

— David Brainerd

#ever #i #i am #i think #life

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#eyes #flow #heart #i #i am

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. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#amount #awareness #betray #born #certain

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ↗

— Herodotus

#delightful #hiding #men #place #weary

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#brain #clearer #come #end #even

The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#injunction #law #local #never #repeating

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. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#division #exploit #folks #forces #freedom