TEARS
Alger, William R.
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven.
Bovee, Christian Nestell
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Campbell, Hope
Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smiles.
Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard
There ought to be more tears of penitence over our neglects of Christ, more tears of sympathy with the afflicted, and more tears of joy over the infinite good things which Jesus brings to us.
Duncan, William
Weep for love, but not for anger; a cold rain will never bring flowers.
Henry, Matthew
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
Hill, Aaron
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
Hirsch, Emil G.
Only they have to weep bitter tears who know what has come to them is the result of their foolish conduct, their ignorant way, their want of proper understanding of life and what love means.
Hunt, J. H. Leigh
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; and laughter is one of the very privilegea of reason, being confined to the human species.
Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate: others because we are humane: many because we are mortal.—But most are caused by our being unwise.—It is these last, only, that of necessity produce more.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.
Irving, Washington
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Jerrold, Douglas
What would women do if they could not cry?—What poor, defenceless creatures they would be.
Landor, Walter Savage
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it.—What is the dawn without its dew?—The tear, by the smile, is made precious above the smile itself.
Lowell, James Russell
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 more tender for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly for it.
Martineau, James
Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.
Massey, Gerald
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
Reese, Lizette Woodworth
When I consider life and its few years—a wisp of fog between us and the sun; a call to battle and the battle done ere the last echo dies within our ears, I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Richter, Jean Paul
O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.
The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second.
Santayana, George
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Scott, Sir Walter
Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Shakespeare, William
My plenteous joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow.
What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small orb of one particular tear!
Smith, Albert
Tears are the safety-valves of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
South, Robert
Repentance hath a purifying power, and every tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping; one shower will not suffice; for repentance is not one single action but a course.
Swetchine, Madam
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer: the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,—tears from the depth of some divine despair rise in the heart and gather in the eyes, in looking on the happy autumn fields, and thinking of days that are no more.
Thomson, James
Those tender tears that humanize the soul.
Young, Edward
Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep.
