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Tears Quotes - Page 42

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.378

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!'

Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

As quoted in "Tusculanae Disputationes" by Cicero, Book I, chapter XV, section 34,

No tears are shed when an enemy dies.

"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 376, 1856.

Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

"Pope Francis’ Silent Response to the Filipino Girl: What He Might Have Been Thinking" by Stafford Betty, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.