TEARS AND LAUGHTER
"Tears and laughter—.these make the drama of life. Together they depict the complex character of hum(an experience'. Things seem to get strangely mixed in this curiously fascinating world. Life is neither one thing nor the other. It never reduces itself to any kind of simple unity, whether of tears or of laughter, but remains a bewildering combination of both. " 'I have known shadow, I have known sun: And now I know These two are one.' "The truth is that life under any other set of circumstances would be unbearable. Too much grief or too much gladness would alike deprjve us of reason. Too little sunshine would blight the earth with mildew; too much wjould scorch it and make it a desert. He was a wise man who desired neither poverty nor riches; overmuch of either would paganise the heart. The mixed conditions of life are the only possible conditions. Neither Carlyle's grim realism of tears, ncii Emerson's gay idealism of laughter is all true. The pendulum swings betwjeen: tears and laughter."—The Rev. John Macbeath in The Circle of Time.
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3477, 9 June 1934, Page 10
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182TEARS AND LAUGHTER Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3477, 9 June 1934, Page 10
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