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• Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

  Khalil Gibran

  Tongue

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

  Charles Peguy

  Writing, Pockets, Guts

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• We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Born, Dies

  thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.127

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• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Fall, Carpe Diem

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.506, Broadview Press

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• And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

  William Cowper

  Addresses, May, Littles

  William Cowper (1854). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.74

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• Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Albert Camus (1978). “Notebooks, 1935-1942”, Harcourt

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• My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Thread, Needles, Hinder

  Thomas Hood (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes”, p.149

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• Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

  Anne Bronte

  Tired, Heart, Eye

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.169, The Floating Press

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• ...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

  Katie MacAlister

  Broken Heart, Soul, Bleeding

  Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.123, Penguin

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• The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

  Pliny the Elder

  Animal, Men, Born

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• I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  I Can

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.87

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• Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

  Guy Finley

  Pain, Mistake, Past

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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.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Love, Relationship, Sympathy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.60, 谷月社

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• It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Blood, Sweat

  "2008: The year in review" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.

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• Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.

  Aaron Hill

  Adoption, Sorrow, Stones

  Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14

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• We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug?

  Cecelia Ahern

  Lonely, Couple, Cutting

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Laughter is more serious than tears.

  Toni Morrison

  Laughter, Serious, Humour

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• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

  Robert Harling

  Laughter, Emotion, My Favorite

  "Steel Magnolias". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

  Charles Simeon

  Broken Heart, Joy, Tender Hearts

  Charles Simeon (1847). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon ...: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.695

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• The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  Samuel Beckett

  Somewhere Else, Laughing, Quality

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Determination, Regret, Moving

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• Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.

  James Martineau

  Prayer, Heaven, Bereavement

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.56

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• Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

  Thomas Paine

  May, Heal, Wounds

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• Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Memories, Eye, Past

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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