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• If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

  Sophocles

  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  "Scyrii". Play by Sophocles, fragment 510. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  "Ad Herrenium", II, 31, 50, "De Inventione", I. 56, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 780-83,

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• I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Poet, Strings, Sorrowful

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• Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Stars, Rivers

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Dry, Cry

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

  Miranda July

  World, Language, Cried

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Grief, Grieving

  "Alexander". Play by Euripides, 415 BCE.

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• No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Reading, Book, Writing

  "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

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• If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Men, Cry

  Burlesque of Lope de Vega's lines 'Si a quien los leones vence...', in Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 67

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• More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

  Antonio Porchia

  Sight, Cry

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• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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• Nature confesses that she has bestowed on the human race hearts of softest mould, in that she has given us tears.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Race, Mould

  Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, William Gifford (1860). “The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius”, p.190

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• The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

  Hosea Ballou

  Heart, Weather, Length

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• Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

  Aaron Hill

  Heart, Giving, Way

  Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33

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• More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Church, Shed

  Thomas Guthrie (1856). “The Gospel in Ezekiel”, p.289

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• Tears are summer showers to the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Summer, Soul, Showers

  "Savonarola: A Tragedy".

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• I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

  Bette Davis

  Bored, Pals, Actresses

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• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  Victor Hugo

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

  Daniel Handler

  Trying, Comfort, Noble

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• Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Mean, Eye

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 21, song (added 1850)

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• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

  Dolly Parton

  Laughter, Emotion, Cry

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• The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

  Alfred de Musset

  Beautiful, Song, Immortal

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