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• In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Eye, White

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• This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.

  Abbi Glines

  Mistake, Hair, Long

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• The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

  Jacques Derrida

  Eye, Sight, Essence

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• Shed not for her a bitter tear; Nor give the heart to vain regret. Tis but the casket that lies here; the gem that fills it sparkles yet.

  Belle Starr

  Sympathy, Regret, Lying

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• Tears may come and go,
  But there's one thing I know.
  All my life you're a friend of mine.
  You can depend on me.
  I'll be fine...
  'Cause you're a friend of mine.

  Clarence Clemons

  May, Causes, Fine

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• We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Teamwork, Wall, Powerful

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• Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.

  Tertullian

  Art, Fall, Race

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• An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night, a burglar, whose heart is true, despite his wicked-looking face, who puts the little child in doom, to save her mamma's jewel case. This may bring tears to every eye; it does not set my heart on fire. I'd like to stand serenely by and watch that horrid child expire.

  Noel Coward

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

  Rene Descartes

  Happiness, Wisdom, Laughter

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• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sad, Laughter, Belief

  "The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran". Book by Kahlil Gibran, 2011.

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• It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

  Mario Cuomo

  Summer, Baseball, Memories

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• I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

  Simon Cowell

  Success, Hard Work, Good Luck

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• The fields are snowbound no longer;
  There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green.
  The snow has been caught up into the sky-
  So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold.
  Now the sun walks in the forest,
  He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers;
  They shiver, and wake from slumber.
  Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls.
  Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears....
  A wind dances over the fields.
  Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter,
  Yet the little blue lakes tremble
  And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Laughter, Spring, White

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.703, Delphi Classics

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• Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Breakup, Sweet, Lying

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

  Tupac Shakur

  School, Rapper, Youth

  Song: Holler If Ya' Hear Me

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• During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself. Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest moisture-but from tears, not rainfall.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Years, Tree

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• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Communication, Home, Heart

  Frederick William Robertson (1872). “Sermons Preached at Brighton: By the Late Rev. Frederick W. Robertson ...”

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• The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

  Viktor Suvorov

  War, Flower, Patriotic

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• April, April
  Laugh thy girlish laughter;
  Then, the moment after,
  Weep thy girlish tears.

  William Watson

  Laughter, Spring, Laughing

  Poems (1905) vol. 1, "Song"

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• Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
  Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

  Madison Cawein

  Laughter, Lying, Home

  MADISON CAWEIN (1899). “Myth and Romance”

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• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.

  Jesse Bering

  Life, Eye, Soon Enough

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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Fall, Kissing

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• It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Prayer, Heart

  John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing (1859). “The entire works of John Bunyan”, p.270

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