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• Tears such as angels weep.

  John Milton

  Angel, Cry

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.23

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• Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

  Louis Mann

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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• Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry,
  to love music.

  Jeff Buckley

  Music, Song, Time

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• The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Wine, Angel, Cry

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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

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

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• God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Laughter, Sorrow, Despair

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

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• Every woman is wrong until she cries.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Cry, Dumb Women

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• How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Song, Love Is, Sight

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• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

  John Vance Cheney

  Heartbroken, Breakup, Spiritual

  John Vance Cheney (1905). “Poems”

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• And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.477, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

  Jessica Simpson

  Purpose, Wipe, Cry

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2009

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sad, Grief, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Blow

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspirational, Time, Broken Hearted

  "The Amazon of Letters". Book by George Wickes, 1976.

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• The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

  Wilson Mizner

  Water, World, Efficient

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• Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

  Sarada Devi

  Eye, Illumination, Giving

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations". Book by Swami Nikhilananda, August 31, 2004.

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• Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Proud, Natural

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• When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears,
  That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

  Kate Tempest

  Shadow, Devil, Taste

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• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sadness, Flow, Inward

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• Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

  Kirsten Dunst

  Boys, Waste, Cry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Stronger, Pieces

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Great Expectations”, p.310, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.

  Walter Scott

  Summer, Flower, Rose

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.319

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• The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

  Lord Byron

  Sea, Dignity, Honest

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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