"I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied."
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"Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth."
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"Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings."
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"Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!"
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"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."
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"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath."
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""What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.""
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"Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood."
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"Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]"
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"There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears."
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"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces."
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"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
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"The media builds you up, and then it tears you down."
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"Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them without tearing."
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"War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins."
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"Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!"
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"If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable."
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"Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape."
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"Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life."
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"I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now."
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