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When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow? - William Cowper We weep and laugh, as we see others do. - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Weeping is not alone woman's weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows. - Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy Every woman is in the wrong until she cries, and then she is in the right instantly. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be! - Douglas William Jerrold My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) Weep not for him that dieth; for he sleeps, and is at rest. - Lady Caroline Sheridan Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton) There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow inward keep. - Matthew Prior What remains when hope is fled? She answered, "Endless weeping. - Samuel Rogers Larded all with sweet flowers which bewept to the grave did go, with true-love showers. - William Shakespeare The April's in her eyes; it is love's spring, and these the showers to bring it on. - William Shakespeare This heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. - William Shakespeare Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. - Socrates Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. - Laurence Sterne Love, Gratitude, and Pity wept at once. - James Thomson (1) For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. - Isaac Watts Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. - Isaac Watts Were both the golden Indies mine, I'd give both Indies for a tear. - Isaac Watts
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