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He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

William Shakespeare

Kings, Humorous, Men

William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive.

Clare Vanderpool

Letting Go, Pain, Voice

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I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both sides poised at each other without someday some fool or some maniac or some accident triggering the kind of war that is the end of the line for all of us. And I just think of what a sigh of relief would go up from everyone on this earth if someday-and this is what I have-my hope, way in the back of my head-is that if we start down the road to reduction, maybe one day in doing that, somebody will say, 'Why not all the way? Let's get rid of all these things'.

Ronald Reagan

War, Believe, Thinking

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The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

John Hamill

New York, Real, Oil

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For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Walter Scott

Royalty, Vain, Monarchy

Sir Walter Scott, J. W. Lake (1848). “The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott: with a sketch of his life”, p.83

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Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Thomas Hood

Wish, World, May

Thomas Hood, Thomas Hood (Jr.) (1867). “The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood”, p.193

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So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

Thomas de Quincey

Children, Oxford, Tears

'Confessions of an English Opium Eater' (1822) pt. 1

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

Blood, Stranger, Intimate

Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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When panting sighs the bosom fill,
And hands by chance united thrill
At once with one delicious pain
The pulses and the nerves of twain;
When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
Ecstatic conscious unison, -
The sure beginnings, say, be these
Prelusive to the strain of love
Which angels sing in heaven above?

Arthur Hugh Clough

Pain, Angel, Eye

"Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.

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A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Sean O'Casey

Laughter, Echoes, Laughing

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

John Milton

Death, Names, Caves

John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.148

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An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Ned Rorem

Artist, People, Feelings

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But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

Ibn al-Farid

Tears, Longing, Should

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Settle this in your heart: Whether I am up or down, the Lord Jesus is the same. Whether I sing or sigh, the promise is true and the Promiser is faithful. Whether I stand on the summit or am hidden in the vale the covenant stands fast and everlasting love abides.

Charles Spurgeon

Jesus, Heart, Faithful

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Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

John Keble

Heart, Heaven, Solitude

John Keble (1874). “The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year”, p.185

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It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.

Ellen G. White

Jesus, Pain, Father

Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

Truth, Hair, Dust

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

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Gather a shell from the strewn beach
And listen at its lips: they sigh
The same desire and mystery,
The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Beach, Echoes, Sea

"The Sea-Limits". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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“I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away. "You know the guy's never gonna give up," Carter nudged me, letting out a sigh. "We'd have really pretty babies, huh?" "Yup. They'd be rad little Brangelinas, running around tearing the place up." "Yeah, you're right. My rejection is such a disservice to the world..."

Rachel Wade

Running, Baby, Giving Up

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When you’re in love, you don’t need words. A look, a touch, a sigh – you’ve said it all.

Juliet Mills

Love You, Needs, Looks

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Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

Mark Akenside

Grace, Mind, Different

Mark Akenside (1744). “The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three Books”, p.136

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Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

December, Has Beens, Edited

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My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.

Robert Southwell

Blow, Love Is, Men

Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

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To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair;
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

William Shakespeare

Prayer, Bird, Fairness

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.942

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When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

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