“ Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
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“ Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of that day that says, "I will try again tomorrow.". ”
- Mary Anne Radmacher- Copy
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“ Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. ”
- Frederick Locker Lampson- Copy
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“ I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep. ”
- Pierre Beaumarchais- Copy
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“ This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper. ”
- T.S. Eliot- Copy
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“ The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ”
- Jean Ingelow- Copy
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“ He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. ”
- Charles Peguy- Copy
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“ I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. ”
- Helen Reddy- Copy
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“ But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own. ”
- Gerald Barzan- Copy
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“ Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay — Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer — committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears… ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Last, but by no means least, courage — moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle — the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. ”
- Sydney Joseph Perelman- Copy
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“ We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about. ”
- Annie Sullivan- Copy
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“ It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful. ”
- Beatrice Arthur- Copy
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“ Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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