Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
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Invictus
by
William Ernest Henley
The big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.
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As You Like It
by
William Shakespeare
No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,—it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs;
Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they cry.
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The White Devil
by
John Webster
I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
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Villette
by
Charlotte Bronte
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.
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The Moonstone
by
Wilkie Collins
It was the women's tribute to the war. It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women.
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Vanity Fair
by
William Makepeace Thackeray
"I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes."
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The House of Mirth
by
Edith Wharton