Tears

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul
to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
-Henri Fredric Amiel

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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
-Robert Herrick

There is a palace that opens only to tears.

-Zohar

O eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears.
-Thomas Kyd

Tears soothe suffering eyes.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes.
They eyes see better for being washed by them.
-Christian Bovee

My tears are full of eyes.

-E. E. Cummings

You do not see the river of mourning

because it lacks one tear of your own.

-Antonia Porchia

Nothing dries sooner than tears.
-Samuel Richardson

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney

Tears of joy
are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
-Hosea Ballou

Our most sacred tears never seek our eyes.

-Kahlil Gibran