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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant we...

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Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai,...

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With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow...

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Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal ...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. A...

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, And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, the fields of heaven,Your distant, melanc...

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Matthew ArnoldEmpedocles on Etna and Other Poems

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliv...

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushe...

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Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

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

With night's Dim veil and blue I will cover my eyes, I will bind close my eyes that are So weary.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and ...

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I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs ...

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