Charles Dickens Quotes, Death Quotes, Tears Quotes

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

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My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Eye Quotes , Tears Quotes

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

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The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

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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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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Tears Quotes , Mouths Quotes

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

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Much outcry, little outcome.

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Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

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Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

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There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

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Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

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