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“Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.”

Tears Anger Leaving Hungry Teeth Milk Prey Claws

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.”

May Seems Tears Shining Rewards Worthy Bees Toil Nectar

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.”

Prayer Tears Parades Imposter Pharisees

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”

Heart Sleep Tears My Heart Buried Locked Caves Fountain Weeping

Author:Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.”

Seems Fall Simple Tears Quiet Hot Tenderness Choke Chaucer Tears Falling Hot Tears

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?”

Years Eye Tears Sweet Wet Violet

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”

Hands Light Eye Night Black Pieces Tears Wings Good Things Woods Invisible Agents Pale Bloody Prey Crow Pitiful Scarves Macbeth Play Invisible Hand Great Bond

Author:William Shakespeare

“HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.”

Earth Suffering Sides Tears Laughter

Author:Alice Walker

“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.”

Fall Sleep Gone Tears Lows Breaths Dear Beloved Dear Friend

Book:'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'

Source: 'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'

“Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.”

Ifs Looks Long Done Running Faces Stars Vision Sun Clear Grace Tears Rivers Desert Look Up Thank God Tombs Blinded

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Laughter is more serious than tears.”

Tears Humour Serious Laughter

Author:Toni Morrison

“My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.”

Tears Thread Needles Hinder Needle And Thread

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Biographical Sketch and Notes

“Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.”

Virtue Cry Tears Victory Temptation Sole Defence

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Nothing dries sooner than a tear.”

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

Certain Pleasure Grief Tears Satisfaction Cures Weeping

Author:Ovid

“See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.”

Heart Eye Water Rocks Tears Flow Firm Fountain Compact Adamant

Book:The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc

“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.”

Art Turns Water Tears Sweet Fairs Crosses Wine Reign Strife Wrath Foe Back Again End Of Life

Book:The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

Source: The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems

“Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.”

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]

“Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.”

Heart Tears My Heart My Friends Rivers Farewell Foe Bursting

Book:The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings

Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings

“What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?”

Young Tears Track Pursue Diamond Dew

Book:John Dryden

Source: John Dryden

“And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.”

May Littles Tears Addresses

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper

“When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?”

Tears Willing Flow Distress Weeping

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“We weep when we are born, Not when we die!”

Dies Born Tears

Book:cloth of gold and other poems

Source: cloth of gold and other poems

“Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.”

Ifs Heart Grows Tree Tears Proud Gentle Poison Repentance Remorse Dew Gloomy True Repentance

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.”

Years Littles Remember White Four Sky Tears Spring Blue Wings Clouds Grass Little Things Ducks Ponds Blue Sky White Clouds

Author:William Allingham

“The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.”

Said War Political Sides Healing Tears Philosophical Hunger Our Society Vietnam Threatened Memorial Disagreement

Author:Ronald Reagan

“The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.”

Joy Stars Tears Sweet Dew

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”

Want Sometimes Perfect Pieces Tree Tears Mountain Perfection Lakes

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.”

Found Grief Tears Flood Leafs Tribute Dove Olives Roost

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The media builds you up, and then it tears you down.”

Media Tears Critics

Author:Thomas Keller

“Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.”

Lines Tears Solutions Drawing Meaningful Lovely Discovering Linear Charcoal Matisse

Author:David Hockney

“In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.”

Tears Let Me Breaths Instinct Edges Faithful Flames Shade Rome Coins Pledge Dove Rendezvous Bonds Of Love

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.”

Forever Tears Ignorance Divine Bliss Gates Veils Abode Rest In Peace

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.”

Pain Past Mistake Cry Tears Shed Echoes Ache Past Mistakes Life Mistakes

Author:Guy Finley

“I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.”

Reason Emotion Sadness Sky Tears Grass Sunshine Melancholy Provence

Author:Paul Cezanne

“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.”

Eye Land Cry Tears Wind Bird West Warm Hills Brown April Daffodil

Book:The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems

“People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.”

People Want Tears Knives

Author:Lady Gaga

“It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.”

Ifs Way Persons Tears Emotional Products Things To Do Right Thing Candidates Acceptable Right Person

Author:Frank Luntz

“The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.”

Mind Self Earth Tears Universal Misery Chaos Drunk Ruins Self Respect Hats Owners Hopeless Touching Sober Drunkenness Plugs Muddy

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Tears Bible Teeth End Times Weeping Lazy People Slothfulness

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“Peace in the struggle to find peace.. comfort on the way to comfort. And if I shed a tear I won't cage it I won't fear love. And if I feel a rage I won't deny it. (I won't fear love.”

Ifs Way Feels Struggle Tears Comfort Deny Rage Shed Cages Finding Peace Fear Of Love

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.”

Men Eye Guy Rooms Practice Week Tears Dancing Dance Coaches Brown Relaxed That Guy Lockers Locker Room

Author:Vince Young

“There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.”

Lines Tears Fine And Love Compliment Fine Lines

Author:Chris Botti

“There's less wear and tear. It allows the heart to pump with greater efficiency so there's less strain. When we really can feel a positive feeling, that's when the heart's communication becomes the best.”

Feels Heart Feelings Greater Tears Communication Efficiency Strain Pumps Positive Feelings

Author:Howard Martin

“I am really excited about Battle of the Stars, the line-up looks fantastic. I've no doubt that despite their fame my hand holding will still be in high demand as they take on the judges often harsh words. Lets just hope I'm not having to mop up too many tears!”

Looks Stills Hands Stars Lines Doubt Tears Judging Battle Fame Demand Excited Despite Fantastic No Doubt Harsh Hand Holding Harsh Words

Author:Kate Thornton

“The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Compassion Kindness Tears He Man Creatures His Eyes Immense Filling Filling Up

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”

Knows Love Mind Wells Littles Long Play Might Today Wanted Lasts Bits Love You Tears Serious Months Ought Terrible Little Bit Argument Vacation Time Love

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.”

Stars Tears Cold Terrible Perfection Beer Cracks Now And Then Shed Symphony Why We Are Here Cold Beer

Author:David Letterman

“Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.”

Life Life Is Kindness Tears Laughter Rain Combination Thoughtful Sunshine

Author:Norman Vincent Peale