"Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words."
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"You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!"
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"All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears."
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"You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it."
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"It's all bound to end in tears."
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"This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."
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"If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time."
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"Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears"
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"Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]"
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"Nothing dries sooner than a tear."
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"...my soul bleeding tears of anguish"
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"When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea."
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"Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt."
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"These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!"
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"Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful."
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"The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face."
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"I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out."
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"The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears."
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"I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity."
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"Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders."
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