Quotes with sighs

  • When I was one-and-twenty 
 I heard him say again, 
 The heart out of the bosom 
 Was never given in vain; 
 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty 
 And sold for endless rue. 
 And I am two-and-twenty 
 And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
  • We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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  • John Cheever A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Abraham Cowley Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • William Shakespeare Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Homer Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • John Keble We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
    John Keble
    English poet (1792 - 1866)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo 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.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty
    I heard him say again,
    The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.
    And I am two-and-twenty
    And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 13, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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