"Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
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"I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!"
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"And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep."
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"The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality."
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"They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears."
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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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"And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury."
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"To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile."
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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
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"Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further."
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"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion."
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"When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes."
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"I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness."
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"Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male."
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"Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry."
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"The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on."
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"Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May."
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"When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast."
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"Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed."
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"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal."
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