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  • Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
    * Bible -- Psalms 30:5


  • It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
    * Miguel de Cervantes


  • Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
    * René Descartes


  • Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
    And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
    * Kahlil Gibran


  • Who knows whither the clouds have fled?
    In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake;
    And the eyes forget the tears they have shed,
    The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
    * James Russell Lowell


  • Our sincerest laughter
    With some pain is fraught:
    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
    * Percy Bysshe Shelley