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 Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad,
 Because it makes us smile.  
 Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad,
 Because it makes us smile. 
 We look before and after,
 And pine for what is not,
  Our sincerest laughter
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 We look before and after,
 And pine for what is not,
  Our sincerest laughter
   With some pain is fraught:
    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. 
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? read more
What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
 Yet be sad, good brothers,
 For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
  Sorrow so royally read more 
 Yet be sad, good brothers,
 For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
  Sorrow so royally in you appears
   That I will deeply put the fashion on
    And wear it in my heart. 
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how read more
Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, read more
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
 It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt 
you to the heart: the one to slander read more 
 It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt 
you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get 
the news to you. 
If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.