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"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation." »Anne Rice
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"And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth." »Native American Prayer
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"The junior senator from wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control." »William Fullbright
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"All things are cause for either laughter or weeping." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed." »Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." »Kahlil Gibran
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"weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." »George Weiss
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"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers." »Johann von Goethe
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"The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung." »Prof. F. A. P. Aveling
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"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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