 | Jonathan Mayhew - Bible - 1763 - 378 pages
...and laughing are, in all cafes, inconfiftent with true fobriety ; far from it. Solomon obferves that there is " a time to laugh," as well as " a time to weep ;" which he would not certainly have faid, if laughing and chearfulnefs had been criminal. For there... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Bible - 1810 - 600 pages
...inconsistent with piety ; no more is a little wit and gaiety among gfriends in their free and social visits. There is a time to laugh, as well as a time to weep. Cheerful conversation is often of real use to enliven the drooping spirits and dispel gloomy cares,... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 660 pages
...inconsistent with piety j no more is a little wit and gaiety among friends irt their free and social visits. There is a time to laugh> as well as a time to weep. Cheerful conversation is often of real use to enliven the drooping spirits and dispel gloomy cares,... | |
 | 724 pages
...very different. They have not yet learnt the rule, that every thing is beautiful in its season ; that there is a time to laugh, as well as a time to weep. Again, they not only see him as a man, in all the harmless hilarities of bodily vigour, and mental... | |
 | 1859 - 632 pages
...children, think as children, and understand as children, little thinking of any more trouble ; but as there is a time to laugh as well as a time to weep, as long, as the Bridegroom is pleased to tarry with them, let them laugh — it is impossible, I know,... | |
 | 1848 - 936 pages
...more. He is brim full of mirth in every page, and he cannot fail to provoke the same in the reader. There is a " time to laugh " as well as a " time to weep ; " and though the former may be more seldom than the latter, yet, in its proper season, nothing can more stir... | |
 | Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel - 1851 - 324 pages
...happiness of which she was conscious. Well, let them all dream on ; for has not the wise man told us that there is a time to laugh, as well as a time to weep. And whether it be far or near, what wisdom can there be in anticipating the weeping time? YOL. I. CHAPTER... | |
 | 1851 - 408 pages
...engross too many hours. No matter what the cynics say, we are believers in the wise man's Proverb, that there is a time to laugh as well as a time to weep, and furthermore that laughter in its proper time is of the utmost service both to body and to mind. 4.... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pages
...LACOUTER is not altogether a foolish thing. Sometimes there is eren wisdom in it. Solomon himself admite "there is a time to laugh," as well as a time to mourn. Man only laughs, — man, the highest organized being, — and hence the deiinition that has... | |
 | 1857 - 834 pages
...and a lanthorn-jswed white cravat are forever droning over human depravity, forgetting the maxim that there is a time to laugh as well as a time to weep. The Rev. Mr. Glumkin is in an agony of solicitude for Sam Stokes' soul, because he ventured a smile... | |
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There is a time to laugh as well as a time to weep, and laughter is promotive of health and longevity. 
