"Tears are not arguments."
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"It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull."
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"Every woman is wrong until she cries."
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"For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others."
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"they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!"
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"The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out."
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"Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling."
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"You shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment."
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"Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling."
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"My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether."
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"Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears."
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"When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'."
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"The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart."
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"They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?"
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"Tears are words waiting to be spoken"
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"Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain."
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"The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest."
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"And tears are heard within the harp I touch."
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"Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow."
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"Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by."
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