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What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine, Already polish'd by the hand divine!

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

Thomas Campbell

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Thomas Campbell

We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years: The soul would have no rainbow Hard the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Words that weep, and tears that speak.

Abraham Cowley

And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

William Cowper

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. 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

The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast.

Thomas Gray

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Thomas Gray

Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte)

Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nevell Bovee

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

John Vance Cheney

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Marguerite de Valois

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

St Theresa of Jesus

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

St Theresa of Euripides

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

St Theresa of Seneca

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C S Robinson

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Nicholas Johnson

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