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"Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love."
"They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker"
"She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation."
"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
"Stop crying... keep hustling."
"Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying."
"Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears."
"Don't Cry For Me, Argentina"
"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
"You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry."
"It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again."
"You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying."
"Consider anything, only don’t cry!"
"It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully."
"Crying is you, plus tears"
"When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry."
"Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out."
"Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace."
"O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die."
"Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right."
