"Weariness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... multiply to weariness quotations from a book that is wholly composed of the doings and sayings of the disembodied man, let it suffice to give the final ...
— Death--and After? • Annie Besant
... convictions under which he had acted so noble a part: "God be praised for the peace! for it was clear that in India, though we had the means to impose the law, all would have been lost. I await your orders with impatience, and heartily pray they may permit me to leave. War alone can make bearable the weariness of certain things." ...
— The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 • A. T. Mahan
... boys, sit down!" ordered the Girl again and again; but it was some moments before she could get the school under control. When, finally, the skylarking had ceased, the Girl said in a voice which, despite its strange weariness, was music ...
— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco
... barbaric story for himself: the flocks of Abraham and Laban: the trek of Jacob's sons to Egypt for corn: the figures of Rebekah at the well, Ruth at the gleaning, and Rispah beneath the gibbet: Sisera bowing in weariness: Saul—great Saul—by the tent-prop with ...
— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... employ it to prevent themselves from being separated from one another and overwhelmed by the first huge crowd, to prevent their few select spirits from losing sight of their splendid and noble task through premature weariness, or from being turned aside from the true path, corrupted, or subverted. These select spirits must complete their work: that is the raison d'etre of their common institution—a work, indeed, which, as it were, must be free from subjective traces, and must further rise above the transient ...
— On the Future of our Educational Institutions • Friedrich Nietzsche
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