"A minute to smile and an hour to……" — Paul Laurence Dunbar
"A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!"
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19 Quotes by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.
- We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our…
- A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.…
- I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with…
- I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
- It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell,…
- But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
- What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man…
- Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God!…
- Money is a great dignifier.
- With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
- This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys…
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- A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.… — Paul Laurence Dunbar