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  • To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.

  • Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Romans12:15.

  • Weep not for little Le  onie Abducted by a French Marquis! Though loss of honour was a wrench Just think how it's improved her French.

    - Harry Graham
      More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Compensation'.

  • To evoke posterity Is to weep on your own grave, Ventriloquizing for the unborn.

    - Robert von Ranke Graves
      'To Evoke Posterity'.

  • Weep If you can, Weep, But do not complain And you must be thankful.

    - Dag HjalmarAgne Carl Hammarskjo«  ld
    Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

  • Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, not spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep and know why.

    -Gerard Manley Hopkins
      'Spring and Fall: to a young child'.

  • Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky: So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves.

    -John Milton
      Lycidas, l.165^73.

  • 'Why weep ye by the tide, ladie? Why weep ye by the tide? I'll wed ye to my youngest son, And ye sall be his bride: And ye sall be his bride, ladie, Sae comely to be seen' But aye she loot the tears down fa' For Jock of Hazeldean.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      'Jock of Hazeldean', stanza1.

  • I weep for Adonaishe is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Adonais, stanza1.

  • But when I plead, she bids me play my part, And when I weep, she says tears are but water: And when I sigh, she says I know the art, And when I wail, she turns herself to laughter.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Amoretti, sonnet18.

  • Sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugare, neque detestari, sed intelligere. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

    - Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza Spinoza
      TractatusTheologico-Politicus, bk.1, pt.4.

  •   Home they brought her warrior dead. She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching said, 'She must weep or she will die.'

    -Tennyson
      The Princess, pt.6, added song, stanza1.

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

    - EllaWheeler Wilcox
      Poems of Passion,'Solitude'.

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