Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Solitude (1883), st. 1

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox · The opening couplet of "Upon the Sand," which ends "Needs friendship's solid mason-work below."

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Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · The source reads: “Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.” · From the poem "The Rainy Day"; the next line is "some days must be dark and dreary."

But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

William Shakespeare · Hamlet (1600–1601), I, ii

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.

John McCrae · In Flanders Fields (1915), st. 1

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“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.”

“All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.”