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Letter "W" » weariness
«To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a cleanmind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the UltimatePurpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on mylips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all thehours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joythat comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.»
Author: Thomas Dekker
(Dramatist, Writer)
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brightening, courteous, greet, The Hours, weariness, well-done, woos
«Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.»
«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.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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amuse, amuses, ball, billiard, billiards, frivolous, hitting, hit man, playing, reasons, such as, sufficient, thus, weariness, weary, wretched
«Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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at rest, dependence, diversion, diversions, forlornness, insufferable, insufficiency, nothingness, weariness
«Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Buildings, craving, creeds, flexible, imposed, lump, lust after, obstruction, obstructions, weariness
«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.»
«Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.»
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