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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.

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I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

by William Temple Found in: Weeping Quotes,
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its read more

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Found in: Weeping Quotes,
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Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.

Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Weeping Quotes,
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

by Anna Letitia Barbauld Found in: Weeping Quotes,
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Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears read more

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

by Frederick Tennyson Found in: Weeping Quotes,
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Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

by Golda Meir Found in: Weeping Quotes,
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