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• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Determination, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser.

  Jeanette

  Pain, Heart, Stronger

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• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Silence, Sublime

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• My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Eye, Flood

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Heart, Blood, Giving

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.36, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Sadness, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.166

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• There is a sacredness in tears

  Washington Irving

  Sacredness

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• Our present tears here, not our present laughter
  Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

  Robert Herrick

  Laughter, Joy, Hereafter

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

  William P. Young

  Healing, Heart, Water

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May, 2007.

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• All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

  Gerald Massey

  Hue, Radiance, Human Life

  Gerald Massey (1889). “My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New”

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• Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cry, Minutes, Mere

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.53, BookBaby

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• If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strength, Plebeians

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [174]

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• Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.

  Matthew Henry

  Spring, Sorrow, Pearls

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• Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sorrow, Despair, Becoming

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

  Hosea Ballou

  Inspirational, Summer, Rain

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• Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Regret, Joy

  Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.62, Mango Media Inc.

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• The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

  Delano Johnson

  Silence, Forever, Stronger

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• Wherever water flows, life flourishes:
  wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.

  Rumi

  Fall, Water, Flow

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• Tears are the noble language of the eye.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Noble, Language

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Taylor & Francis

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• Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Littles, Found

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.304

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• Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

  Katie Gill

  Sad, Feeling Down, Given

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• I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hope, Laughter, Laughing

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

  Jeff Buckley

  Forever, Soul, My Soul

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• After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Blood, Giving

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1851). “The stone-mason of Saint Point: a village tale. Translated from the French”, p.45

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