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The tears fall, they're so easy to wipe off onto my sleeve, but how do I erase the stain from my heart?
Cat Stevens
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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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: Tears
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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!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Quotes , Source: Two Moods
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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
Alex Tan
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Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Fountains of tears.
[Lat., Fons lacrymarum.]
Aeschylus
Quotes , Source: Agamemnon (861)
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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."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quotes , Source: The Sleep (st. 9)
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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.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , 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!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , 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.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 118)
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A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. I, st. 23)
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For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , 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.
John Vance Cheney
Quotes , Source: Tears
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
William Cowper
Quotes , 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.
Erasmus Darwin
Quotes , Source: The Botanic Garden (pt. II, canto III, l. 459)
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