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• The fundamental things apply
  As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Fundamentals, Time Goes By, Time Goes On

  "As Time Goes By" (song) (1931)

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• The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

  David James Duncan

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

  Jean Little

  Dog, Eyebrows, Tails

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, People, Silence

  Robert Orben (2012). “2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches”, p.312, Doubleday

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• Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Mind, Teach, Novel

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• Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate;And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.

  Lord Byron

  Hate, Heart, Fate

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.536, Delphi Classics

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• If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

  Lord Acton

  Morning, Anxiety, Paper

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• A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

  Arnold Haultain

  Funny, Women, Being A Woman

  Arnold Haultain (2015). “Hints for Lovers: "The Secret Nature and Psychology of Love"”, p.37, eKitap Projesi

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• ... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Curtains, Folds

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• Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

  William Wordsworth

  Compassion, Tears, Ends

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.102

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• your eyes... they're beautiful.you're beautiful." *sigh*

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Eye, You Re Beautiful

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Hope, Laughter

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• Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Thinking, Dull

  'Written at an Inn at Henley' (1758).

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• I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Beautiful, Long, Dying

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• Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.

  Thom Yorke

  Mouths, Universal, Wide

  "Song: 'Bloom'". 2011.

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• I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Lying, Eye

  Song: Wonderful Remark, Album: Van Morrison At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits

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• If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

  Herman Melville

  Laughing, May, Pessimism

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1524, Delphi Classics

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• It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Hate, Believe, Holiday

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• Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Wish, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.5, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Heart

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

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• To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?

  Salman Rushdie

  Winning, Land, Needs

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• There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Voice, Wish, Tone

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• Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sadness, Mean, Expression

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• In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Pain, Mind, Madness

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.348, Penguin

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