weary quotes

Then Jael Heber'swifetook anail ofthetent, and took an hammer inher hand, and went softly untohimand smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Judges 4:21.

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 3:17.

And a manshall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 32:2.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lshall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD Isaiah 40:30^31.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Galatians 6:9.

   Ay waukin,O, Waukin still and weary: Sleep I can get nane, For thinkin on my Dearie.

- Robert Burns
  'Ay waukin O', chorus.

When o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo, And owsen frae the furrowed field Return sae dowf and weary O.

- Robert Burns
  'My ain kind dearie', or 'The Lea-rig', stanza1.

Likethemain-travelled road of life it istraversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate.

- (Hannibal) Hamlin Garland
Main-Travelled Roads,'The Main-Travelled Road of the West'.

Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.

- George Herbert
'The Pulley', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

   Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistslack they may bethese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Carrion Comfort'.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  'Rondeau'.

  A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And press the rue for wine!

- Sir Walter Scott
  Rokeby, canto 3, stanza 28,'Song'.