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Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Why can’t people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it’s sappy?

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it’s much too painful.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.