#weariness

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. ↗

— John Calvin

#even #fear #midst #minds #never

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#half #literal #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man

The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#done #greatest #weariness #work

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. ↗

— Dick Morris

#areas #between #distinction #does #eras

Exercise is labor without weariness. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#exercise #labor #weariness #without

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#increased #loads #new #possession #us

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#love #separation #weariness #love

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. ↗

— Voltaire

#evil #greed #labor #need #vice

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was long ago. How far, since then, the ocean streams Have swept us from that land of dreams, That land of fiction and of truth, The lost Atlantis of our youth! Whither, ah, whither? Are not these The tempest-haunted Orcades, Where sea-gulls scream, and breakers roar, And wreck and sea-weed line the shore? Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle! Here in thy harbors for a while We lower our sails; a while we rest From the unending, endless quest. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#fantasy #weariness #youth #dreams

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin. ↗

— William Kean Seymour

#solitude #trees #weariness #music