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• If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

  Helen Keller

  Law, Perfect, Growth

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

  Rudolf Bing

  Night, Sigh Of Relief, Two

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• Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

  Georg Trakl

  Water, Shadow, Silver

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• I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Breathing, Heard

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from Nov 29, 2015

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• The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

  Karl Marx

  Giving Up, Real, People

  Karl Marx (1975). “Early writings”, Vintage

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• Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blithe, Inconstancy

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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• Man makes religion, religion does not make man

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Criticism Of Religion

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1973). “Karl Marx on Society and Social Change: With Selections by Friedrich Engels”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

  Anna Seward

  Being Happy, Let Me, Distinguished

  Anna Seward (1810). “Works”, p.73

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• Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Flower, Moving

  "Collected Works", v. 3, " Introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx, 1843.

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• That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Small Changes, Society

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby: Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the Nickleby Family”, p.299

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair

  John Clare

  Despair, Needs, Her Smile

  John Clare (2003). “John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837”, p.37, Oxford University Press

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• All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.

  Gertrude Stein

  World, Cry, Extras

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

  Edward Dyer

  True Love, Heart, Eye

  Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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• I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Sigh Of Relief, Looks, World

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• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Sports, Time, Sigh Of Relief

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• Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Hope, Dog, Yesterday

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• This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

  James Lovelock

  Crazy, War, Sigh Of Relief

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• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Atheist, Heart

  Karl Marx, Joseph O'Malley (1977). “Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy Of Right'”, p.131, CUP Archive

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• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

  David K. Shipler

  Spiritual, Song, Age

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

  Derek Walcott

  Landscape, Sugar, Ruins

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

  Derek Walcott

  Beauty, Landscape, Surprise

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Character, Angel

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• A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message.

  Steve Biddulph

  Eye, Toxic, Messages

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• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  William Shakespeare

  Lost Love, Men, Sea

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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