"You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed."
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"Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying."
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"But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time."
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"Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer."
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"Too young for woe, though not for tears."
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"Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near."
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"If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe."
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"O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears."
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"And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears."
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"Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain."
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"Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?"
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"If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift."
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"The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness."
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"Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining."
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"Nature's tears are reason's merriment."
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"How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!"
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"So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love."
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"The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears."
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"The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'"
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"Marc/Faythe/Jace love triangle moment: "This isn't about you...." "Well, it should be!" he shouted, and I flinched. "Everything I do is about you, and I want the reverse to be true, too." I wiped more tears, my throat aching with words that would only make this worse. "What, you need a reminder? That's what he was doing, right? And now you smell like him. You probably taste like him. You should taste like me..." He was on me before I could even catch my breath."
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