(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
From Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Marcia.html (trans. J. W. Basore)
Other works
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282.
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.”
Attributed to Teresa by Truman Capote in "An Interview with Truman Capote" by Don Lee Keith, in Contempora (October/November 1970), p. 40, as the source of the title of a work in progress which he intended as a novel, to be called Answered Prayers; no earlier publications of such an attribution has yet been located.
Variants:
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Attributed in The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes (1992) by Carolyn Warner
Disputed
Scyrii, Frag. 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
Disputed
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”
[Maudsley, Henry, The Pathology of Mind, Macmillan, 1895, 978-0-598-47100-0, https://books.google.com/books?id=C5QXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138, 138]
“Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.”
"Faery Songs", I (1818)
Context: Shed no tear! O shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! O weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
