Top 100 Weep Not Quotes

#1. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

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#2. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

Judith Merkle Riley

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#3. To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

Michael Koryta

Weep Not Quotes #18585
#4. O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#5. She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

George R R Martin

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#6. Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Weep Not Quotes #60166
#7. We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can't, it weeps.

John Piper

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#8. Behold, my friends, I am justice.
And when at last we meet, you will not like it.
And if irony awakens in you at the end, see me weep with these tears of jade, and answer with a smile.
If you've the courage.
Have you, my friends, the courage?

Steven Erikson

Weep Not Quotes #67405
#9. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

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#10. Fear not for the future, weep not for the past

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#11. Straight is the way to Acheron,
Whether the spirit's race is run
From Athens or from Meroe:
Weep not, far from home to die;
The wind doth blow in every sky
That wafts us to that doleful sea.

John Addington Symonds

Weep Not Quotes #109322
#12. If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Madame Roland

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#13. I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like
free at last!

Elie Wiesel

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#14. Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings.

Kameron Hurley

Weep Not Quotes #139007
#15. Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime ... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!

Robert Montgomery

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#16. Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau

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#17. I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care.

Virginia Woolf

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#18. Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will ... weep that you did not change.8

Daniel L. Akin

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#19. Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

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#20. They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

Philippa Gregory

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#21. Do not weep, dear friend. Have I not told you that Separation is inevitable from all near and dear to us? Whatever is born, produced, conditioned, contains within itself the nature of its own Dissolution. It cannot be otherwise.

Dennis William Hauck

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#22. Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?

Osamu Dazai

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#23. Jenkins tried to say goodbye, but he could not say goodbye. If he could only weep, he thought, but robots could not weep.

Clifford D. Simak

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#24. Mourn not overmuch! Mighty was the fallen, meet was his ending. When his mound is raised, women then shall weep. War now calls us!

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#25. You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world.

Rumi

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#26. If you are there to staunch the tears of the world, then it does not cross your mind that you yourself may weep.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#27. We weep when we are born, not when we die!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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#28. Patients weep when they discover they are their own victimizers and not the victim of others. They weep when they discover they are responsible for their own suffering.

Anais Nin

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#29. I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Confucius

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#30. Do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the world over.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#31. Shut lips, sleeping faces,
Every stopped machine,
The dumb and littered places
Where crowds have been:.
All silences rejoice,
Weep (loudly or low),
Speak-but with the voice
Of whom, I do not know.

Aldous Huxley

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#32. Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

Aaron Hill

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#33. We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.

Louise Carter

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#34. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Shan Sa

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#35. If it must be so, let's not weep nor complain If I have failed, or you, or life turned sullen. We have had these things, they do not come again, But the flag still flies and the city has not fallen." Humbert Wolfe

Daphne Du Maurier

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#36. My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

Anais Nin

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#37. Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
And thy maker is not by;
Think not thou canst weep a tear
And thy maker is not near.

William Blake

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#38. I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte.
"You have no soul," said Philippe sadly.
"But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance."
"I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?

Georgette Heyer

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#39. It is related of a Swedish priest that, profoundly disturbed by the sight of the effect his address produced upon the auditors, who were dissolved in tears, he said soothingly, "Children, do not weep; the whole thing might be a lie.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#40. Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

Lucretia Mott

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#41. I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#42. That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.

Isabel Allende

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#43. Though I stand in darkness, I will fear no shadow. Though I am lost, I will know the way. Though I dwell in sorrow, I will weep no tears. For I am not alone

Galen Beckett

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#44. It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Michel De Montaigne

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#45. How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

Anne Bronte

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#46. We were not made to eternally weep.

Countee Cullen

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#47. Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Og Mandino

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#48. Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.

Matthew Arnold

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#49. Weep not for me but for thy children.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#50. I promise not to draw blood, if you promise not to weep.

Deborah Harkness

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#51. Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

Eugene Field

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#52. Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more.

Matthew Arnold

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#53. We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

Mamoru Oshii

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#54. Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

Genghis Khan

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#55. He who does not weep does not see.

Victor Hugo

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#56. I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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#57. You seem to forget that the sun must set. You knew perfectly well that I would not be with you long enough. Still, you weep and cry and ask God 'Why' as if it were some kind of surprise. Why? Because love changes everything. Love's the surprise.

Kate McGahan

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#58. Enough, dear son, enough, my friend," he said at last with deep feeling. "What is it? You should rejoice and not weep. Don't you know that this is the greatest of his days?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#59. Do you not weep?
Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

John Webster

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#60. It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Lydia Millet

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#61. Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind.

Stephen Crane

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#62. If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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#63. It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

Robert Anton Wilson

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#64. Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

Archilochus

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#65. Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.

F.D. Lee

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#66. Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek
Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek
With sympathetic care their arms around the creep,
For oh they can not bear to see their father weep

W.S. Gilbert

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#67. Don't think I have any intention of caressing your cheek and saying I was wrong," he said softly as I watched the life ebb out of him. "I will not weep and wonder what might have been. I'm sure you understand.

Oliver Bowden

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#68. So...Well...Life went by...The only thing money can't buy is time. Weep before God or not, you can't buy it. That's just the way it is.

Svetlana Alexievich

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#69. And friends, dear friends,
when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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#70. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

Stephen Crane

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#71. Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

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#72. I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.

Peter S. Beagle

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#73. From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

Walter Scott

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#74. We should not weep for the arriving soul - It isn't dead. We should weep instead for the one whose body is alive, but whose soul is dead because of its alienation from that which gives it life: God.

Yasmin Mogahed

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#75. We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness

Jose Saramago

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#76. We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

Helen Keller

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#77. O do not weep, she says,
for ages past I was
and I endure

H.D.

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#78. Telling the willow not to weep only makes it weep more.

Marty Rubin

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#79. Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.

Neil Gaiman

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#80. Part of him wanted to weep ... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

Stephen R. Donaldson

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#81. You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Idries Shah

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#82. Life must go on, yes, but in the end - after the end - life was not important, just pictures on a screen, absorbing for as long as they lasted, causing us to weep and laugh, perhaps, but when the images are gone we step out blinking into the light.

Stephen Volk

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#83. It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#84. Life is sad and there is nothing we can do about it. All we can is to be vigilant about what we should not do. The worst thing we can do is to not feel the sadness, to not weep, to not acknowledge the hurt that sits at the core of the human heart.

Martha M. Moravec

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#85. Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

Desmond Tutu

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#86. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Lord Byron

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#87. I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

Charlie Sheen

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#88. The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality.

Thomas Mann

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#89. It took all her strength not to weep. She had been weeping too much of late. It was unseemly, she knew, but she could not seem to help herself; the tears would come, sometimes over a trifle, and nothing she did could hold them back.

George R R Martin

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#90. We weep for gladness, weep for grief;
The tears they are the same;
We sigh for longing, and relief;
The sighs have but one name,
And mingled in the dying strife,
Are moans that are not sad
The pangs of death are throbs of life,
Its sighs are sometimes glad.

George MacDonald

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#91. The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.

Ellen Terry

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#92. But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Kahlil Gibran

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#93. Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;
And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently.

Christopher Marlowe

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#94. Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Mark Twain

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#95. Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

Darrin Patrick

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#96. People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

James Baldwin

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#97. I told you once," said Red, "that I wanted to hear your voice. I did not think the first words I would hear would be these."
"Those were not the first words," I whispered, fighting tears. I would not weep.

Juliet Marillier

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#98. Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

Harry Graham

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#99. To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

Swami Vivekananda

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#100. The woman did not sob nor weep. She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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