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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
Robert Frost
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.”
Adlin Sinclair
“Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!”
Lord Byron
“Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears”
Publilius Syrus
“And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.”
Kahlil Gibran