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• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Eye, House

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.71

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• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Meaningful, Dream, Religious

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• We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

  Henri Barbusse

  Laughter, Ideas, Solitude

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.154, 1st World Publishing

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• This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

  Richard V. Allen

  Mother, Country, Blood

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• The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child,
  Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Winter, Snow

  Mary Robinson (1999). “Mary Robinson: Selected Poems”, p.323, Broadview Press

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• A tear-drop of green.

  Ronald McNair

  Space, Earth, Green

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• A friend worth your tears, will never make you cry.

  William Conner

  Friendship, Cry, Make You Cry

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• Wan February with weeping cheer,
  Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
  Down misty roads of mire and rime,
  Before thy pale and fitful face
  The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
  Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
  Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
  But lit with hopes that light the year's.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Morning, Cheer, Eye

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Spiritual, Peace, Prayer

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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• I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Stars, Drinking, Eye

  Anne Rivers Siddons (1994). “Downtown”, G K Hall & Company

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• We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Sisterhood, Men, Our World

  "Acceptance Speech: Liberian Noble Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee Talks About the Struggles of African Women". face2faceafrica.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  Edwidge Danticat

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people

  Eddie Izzard

  People, Scottish, Braveheart

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• I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fall, British, Showers

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• Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Eye, Heaven, Wide

  "Song: "Sonnet" ("Urban Hymns")". March 2, 1998.

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• I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.

  Win Butler

  Thinking, Rocks, Media

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• Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.… The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily courage in non-cooperation with the tyrannical forces of the State and the Church, he helps to tear down present society; the Anarchist by daily cooperation with his fellows in overcoming evil with good-will and solidarity builds toward the anarchistic commonwealth which is formed by voluntary action with the right of secession.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Philosophy, Men, Two

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.199, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

  Georg Buchner

  Stars, Pain, Eye

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

  Marilyn French

  Art, Mind, Events

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Pitching, Sometimes

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• The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Horse, Wife

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• Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.

  Mabel Collins

  Heart, Eye, Blood

  Mabel Collins, Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Light on the Path: Light on the Path: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.7, Weiser Books

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• From the world’s perspective, there are many places you can go to find comfort. But there is only one place you will find a hand to catch your tears and a heart to listen to your every longing. True peace comes only from God.

  Charles Stanley

  Heart, Hands, Perspective

  Charles Stanley (2005). “Into His Presence: An In Touch Devotional”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

  Terry Rossio

  Writing, Italian, Design

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