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

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

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved read more

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.

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

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

Tears are the silent language of grief

Tears are the silent language of grief

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

There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, read more

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.