I am weary of reading Newspapers. The Times are so full of Events, the whole Drama of the World is such a Tragedy that I am weary of the Spectacle.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1793-02-27) to Abigail Adams
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I would not change the song the flute-girl sings
For all the diadems of weary kings,
His joys the Sultan shares with all the world,
His cares he keeps — a chain of glittering rings.
Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 201
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Weariness is a shy, neurasthenic young girl whose parents form a rather dysfunctional couple: Hope, an absent father who finds his greatest happiness in the future, and Disappointment, a depressive mother who haunts the present, dragging behind her the black ball and chain of a decaying past...
What a lovely family!"
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Today's poem:
Afternoon in School: The Last Lesson
- by D.H. Lawrence
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/787128044669337600/afternoon-in-school-the-last-lesson?source=share
Under the hat of anger, there is sometimes a desire to tear up our memories, to bury all the divine signs in the sand, and to take a vacation from your silence...
I want neither cries nor writings in invisible ink, nor those birds with dull and mossy wings from waiting for the rain of your words...
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#BlueChristmas: A Service of Hope is tonight. This is a really special time to take our #uncertainty, #weariness, #grief and more and place it before God during preparations for #Christmas. I hope we can share it together either in-person or online tonight. https://littlehills.church/blueChristmas/
‘Altschmerz’: A sense of weariness, with the same old problems…
ALTSCHMERZ - From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
A quotation from Bible, vol. 2, New Testament:
«
Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bible-nt/71970/
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A quotation from Byron, George Gordon, Lord:
«
But now at thirty years my hair is gray ––
(I wonder what it will be like at forty?
I thought of a peruke the other day)
My heart is not much greener; and, in short, I
Have squander’d my whole summer while ’twas May,
And feel no more the spirit to retort; I
Have spent my life, both interest and principal,
And deem not, wh…
»
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https://wist.info/byron/68435/
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A quotation from Billings, Josh:
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About one-half the discumfert ov this life iz the result ov gitting tired ov ourselfs.
[About one-half the discomfort of this life is the result of getting tired of ourselves.]
»
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https://wist.info/billings-josh/67374/
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A quotation from Burns, Stephen L.:
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The years swarm around me like midges, and though each tiny bite only costs me a single drop of blood, they are so thick I am nearly bled dry.
»
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https://wist.info/burns-stephen-l/67107/
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A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:
«
If life is a play, then old age is its last act — and we ought to leave the theater when we are weary or, even better, when we are satisfied.
[Senectus autem aetatis est peractio tamquam fabulae, cuius defetigationem fugere debemus, praesertim adiuncta satietate.]
»
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https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/64170/
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A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:
«««««
After 3 days men grow weary,
of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
»»»»»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/61003/
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