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Fountains of tears.
[Lat., Fons lacrymarum.]
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Agamemnon (861)
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We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Metempsychosis
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Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay,
And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,
I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Two Moods
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A child of those tears.
[Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: Confessions (bk. III, 12)
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And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be
That this low breath is gone from me,
And gone my bier ye come to weep,
Let One, most loving of you all,
Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall;
He giveth His beloved sleep."
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: The Sleep (st. 9)
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Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place
And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run
Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Tears
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So bright the tear in Beauty's eye,
Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 8)
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Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear--
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
That weapon of her weakness she can wield,
To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Corsair (canto II, st. 15)
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What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain?
The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,
That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine,
Already polish'd by the hand divine!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Corsair (canto II, st. 15)
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She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears,
For women shed and use them at their liking;
But there is something when man's eye appears
Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 118)
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There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Elegiac Stanzas--On the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart
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A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. I, st. 23)
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For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 180)
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We look through gloom and storm-drift
Beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
Hard the eyes no tears.
Author: John Vance Cheney
Source: Tears
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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
[Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Ad Herrenium (II, 31, 50)
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Words that weep, and tears that speak.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Source: The Prophet (st. 2, l. 8)
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
Author: William Cowper
Source: The Rose
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No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears,
No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.
Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
Author: Erasmus Darwin
Source: The Botanic Garden (pt. II, canto III, l. 459)
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What precious drops are those,
Which silently each other's track pursue,
Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
Author: John Dryden
Source: The Conquest of Grenada (pt. II, act III, sc. 1)
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Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
Sorrow calls no time that's gone:
Violets plucked the sweetest rain
Makes not fresh nor grow again.
Author: John Fletcher
Source: Queen of Corinth (act IV, sc. 1), not in original folio, said to be spurious
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The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Eton College (st. 5)
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Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Progress of Poesy (III, 1, l. 12)
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And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Sonnet--On the Death of Mr. West
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Never a tears bedims the eye
That time and patience will not dry.
Author: Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte)
Source: Lost Galleon
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Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow,
For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XIX, l. 319), (Pope's translation)
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: None
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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
Author: Alfred Austin
Source: None
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
Source: None
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Author: John Vance Cheney
Source: None
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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Source: None
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Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
Author: Marguerite de Valois
Source: None
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Author: St Theresa of Jesus
Source: None
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Author: Euripides
Source: None
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Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
Author: C S Robinson
Source: None
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