A quotation from John Adams

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1793-02-27) to Abigail Adams

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A quotation from Omar Khayyam

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

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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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‘Altschmerz’: A sense of weariness, with the same old problems…

https://spectra.video/w/atZc6TMPb6D3uG5S6UVt4V

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ALTSCHMERZ - From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

https://spectra.video/w/atZc6TMPb6D3uG5S6UVt4V

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…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/byron/68435/

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