#weeps

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#brighter #broom #clearer #confession #dirt

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#born #die #long #man #she

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? ↗

— Max Muller

#child #cold #despair #did #divine

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#bad man #every #every time #good #man

The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#along #autumn #beaten #face #fun

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#across #been #could #cures #difference

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

#built #compromise #gross #name #second

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#kings #save #tyrants #weeps #why